121 results for '"Hermann Schone'

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step--from Jacques de...

Aristotle's Earliest 'course Of Lectures On Rhetoric'. Aristotle's First Literary Effort : The Gryllus, A Lost Dialogue On The Nature Of Rhetoric / Anton-hermann Chroust -- The Definition Of Rhetoric...

This book considers the so-called Unlikely Intersections, a topic that embraces well-known issues, such as Lang's and Manin-Mumford's, concerning torsion points in subvarieties of tori or abelian...

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...

At the MSK, the spring of 2015 will be dedicated to Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). Cameron was one of the leading and most innovative photographers of the nineteenth century. She is probably...

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot testNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Post • Sunday Times (UK) • Irish IndependentIn 1917, working...

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation...

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as “the greatest living man of letters.” This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley...

Eine Auswahl aus dem 10-bändigen Verfasserlexikon, dem umfassenden Nachschlagewerk über das volkssprachliche und lateinische Schrifttum des Mittelalters im deutschsprachigen Raum, liegt jetzt in der...

Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his...

“It chimes eerily with the times we are living through now.” ―Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book ReviewHendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to...

The definitive biography of the representative writer of our ageAlthough Franz Kafka (1883–1924) completed only a small number of works in his lifetime, perhaps no other author has had a greater...

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient...

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient...

An Economist Best Book of 2007, Jonathan CarrÕs The Wagner Clan proves, with the sweeping scope of a Wagnerian opera, that the history of Europe and that of the infamous composerÕs family are...

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and...

An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composerAlban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism...

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi—the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.River...