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Avoiding the traps of sensational political expose and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and...

"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."—Publishers Weekly"The translators of Wallless Space were brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and...

Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images, M.C. Escher was a master of the third dimension. Titled after the famous lithograph, this book stresses the magic spell Escher's work casts on...

A forgotten eyewitness book about Hitler's rise to power with new material on the author. In the Spring of 2003 the BBC will feature a high-profile documentary on Hitler's rise to power. One of the...

In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe,...

Now in a new translation, a darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an encroaching fascistic force.Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On...

In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing...

Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and...

Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rightsmovement across the United States, The Price of ProgressivePolitics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rightspolitics, revealing...

Annotation Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies...

Der "Georges" ist seit Jahrzehnten ein unentbehrliches Arbeitsmittel für alle, die sich intensiv mit dem klassischen Latein beschäftigen. Das Handwörterbuch erschließt den großen Reichtum der...

Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important―and most controversial―writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of...

One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme—and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling...

Dieser bisher unveroffentlichte Briefwechsel zwischen Ernst Junger und Martin Heidegger geht hervor aus Gesprachen der Nachkriegszeit uber ein grossangelegtes Zeitschriften-Projekt, an dem neben...

The classic introduction to the philosophies, practices, and history of Sufism, the mystical tradition of IslamThe Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco to...

Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture,...

The first book on master photographer Ernst Haas's work dedicated to both his classic and newly discovered New York City color photographs of the 1950s and 60s.Ernst Haas's color works reveal the...

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