900 results for '"Hartmann Von Aue'

A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thoughtJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics...

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the...

“An exhilarating account of a remarkable historical moment, in which characters known to many of us as immutable icons are rendered as vital, passionate, fallible beings . . . Lively, precise, and...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear...

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an...

The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the world’s greatest naturalists. “How the sciences of geology, biology, ecology and paleontology developed...

How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It’s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the...

A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied...

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet...

Cyprus has always shown a remarkable openness to divergent cultures--at no time more than in the Middle Ages, when successive Byzantine and Latin conquerors settled on the island and dominated its...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program...

The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiographyThis is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and...

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy and art that inspires it, provokes central questions about the...

The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today’s comic-book and cinematic superheroes.Superhumans—humans who’ve evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any...

Das Buch behandelt die philosophische Kritik Martin Heideggers am Nationalsozialismus und an der Technik. Diese ist vor allem ab 1936 greifbar in Vortrgen, Vorlesungen (insbesondere zu Nietzsche) und...

Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's, which explores...

The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a...

Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy,...

This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of 'lost time', i.e. the gap between stimulus and response, by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the 19th century: the...