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Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday li ...
"Das Ordnen der Zeit"--Was heißt das? Zuerst: Die doppelte Natur der Zeit. Denn die Zeit ordnet von sich aus, durch sich als, Zeit', unterwirft die Menschen unter ihre Maße, Rhythmen. Die...
?15?Geschichte ereignet sich in der Zeit. Aber wie? Als Fortschritt in aufsteigender Linie? Oder als Kreislauf in der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen? Diesen beiden geläufigen Vorstellungen hat der...
Eine "Weiberherrschaft" war im 18. Jahrhundert an sich nicht ungewöhnlich - ungewöhnlich aber war, dass Kaiserin Maria Theresia das Geschäft des Regierens als ihre persönliche Aufgabe derart ernst...
Dieser Band widmet sich den Handschriften aus der Bibliotheca Palatina, die 1816 aus dem Vatikan, wohin sie 1623 als Geschenk Maximilians von Bayern gelangt waren, nach Heidelberg zuruckkehrten...
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling All Systems Red.The "I love Murderbot!" —New York Times...
A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. TimesWhat does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist...
Providing a unique interpretation of Kant’s theory of judgement as integral to his overall project, Claudia Brodsky explores his continued relevance to contemporary theoretical concerns. The...
Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.Hans Haacke's art articulates the...
A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have...
Now that we have sequenced the human genome, what does it mean? In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon critically examines the decade after the Human Genome Project, and the fundamental...
When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his “investments.” But when he tried the card shops,...
In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like--to get to the roots of the American nature and...
Heller and Feher analyse the causes of changes in the vocabulary of politics, summarizing the result in the term 'postmodern political condition'. The authors focus on a variety of processes,...
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from...