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Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 73.33Hauptbeschreibung <p>Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen, die der Frage nachgehen, wie in Drama und Film Wendezeiten modelliert werden. Die Gestaltung epochaler Zäsuren bringt eigenständige Deutungsansprüche zur Geltung, die nicht auf vorgeordnete politische, gesellschaftliche oder... more...
The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
Kristeva
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S. K. Keltner's book provides the first comprehensive... more...
Letters on England
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728. Comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America , Voltaire looks at English culture as an outsider, giving its culture, society and governing institutions a favorable comparison to their French counterparts. more...
The School for Husbands
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 4.95The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy. In a theatre in the Louvre and in the Palais-Royal, Molière found success among the Parisians with The School... more...
King Kong Theory
Profile 2009; US$ 14.38King Kong Theory is Despentes' candid account of how she became notorious: reviled and admired in equal measure for her rape-revenge novel turned film, Baise-Moi, she is the poster girl for modern female rebellion. Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theory describes the ways her ideas have been shaped by her experiences of rape, prostitution... more...









