226 results for '"Maurice Isserman'

La 4e de couverture indique : "Avant même l'ouverture du procès, la cause semble entendue : Maurice Papon, secrétaire général de la préfecture de la Gironde sous l'Occupation, est coupable. Mais, au...

A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s countercultureIn his own lifetime, William Blake (1757–1827) was a relatively unknown...

Amazon Best Children's Book of the Year winner for ages 6 to 8Most Anticipated Books of 2024 List, Kirkus ReviewsMost Anticipated Kids Books List - February, Barnes & NobleKids Indie Next Pick...

"On Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett...

On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to...

Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic Tristes Tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the...

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the vibrant figures who invented modernist art in bohemian Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century   When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror,...

Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially...

Product Description L'influence intellectuelle et spirituelle d'Emmanuel Lévinas ne cesse de croître depuis son décès en 1995. Salomon Malka, qui a été son élève pendant trois décennies, a...

Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how...

In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg’s The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force—Catholic...

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black PrizeAn electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years“Never trust the teller,” wrote D. H. Lawrence, “trust...

Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of...

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today.“As departments.....

Politics, Writing, Mutilation was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching”...

2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate...

In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning...

"En 1998, toute la presse française se fait l'écho de la disparition de Pierre Boutang et le monde intellectuel, longtemps divisé à son sujet, rend un hommage unanime à ce maître à la fois...