781 results for '"Greiner, Walter'

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the...

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film stills, and images from the media. In this new, updated...

Building on the ideas Harney and Moten developed in The Undercommons, All Incomplete extends the critical investigation of logistics, individuation and sovereignty. It reflects their chances to...

Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of...

Princeton University first started collecting Western manuscripts in 1876 and continues to this day with the specific aim of developing a research and teaching tool. That unique collection of...

Göran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between...

Exploring the deep-rooted links between British artists and France during the Modernist periodThe late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century was the “golden age” of British artists living and working...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York CityHere is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed...

An NYRB Classics OriginalSeventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in...

Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter...

Product description « Mort de Dieu », « fin de l'histoire », « désenchantement du monde », la pensée du vingtième siècle est née sur un terrain particulièrement favorable au nihilisme et rares sont...

For years one of Germany's foremost cultural organizations, the Werkbund included in its membership such pioneers of the modern movement as Henry van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, and...

"The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction'...

A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations...

The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time. Walter Laqueur traces Zionism from its beginnings—with the emancipation of European...

Around the time of WWI, large numbers of African Americans began leaving their homes in the rural South in search of employment in the industrial cities of the North. In 1940, Lawrence chronicled...

***Winner of the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry*** Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National...

Representing Modernist Texts seeks to expose, and then to bridge, the gap between contemporary textual scholarship and the critical and theoretical study of modernist texts. Modernist critics and...

In a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui--the perpetual insurgent--composed Eternity by the Stars in 1871, imprisoned...

Masterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.  On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy,...