Bøker fra Northwestern University Press
Kun lagervarer
Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? -
Drawing attention to the vexed relationship between feminist theory and philosophy, Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? demonstrates the spectrum of...
Les mer
Retracing the Platonic Text
Written from a Continental perspective, Retracing the Platonic Text reveals dimensions of the dialogues that are not addressed by traditional...
Les mer
The Tragic Menagerie
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a...
Les mer
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy
In this collection of essays, one of the most insightful of contemporary literary theorists investigates the intersection of literature and...
Les mer
The Poetics of Indeterminacy
In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central...
Les mer
Marx on Suicide
In 1846, two years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto and twenty-one years before the publication of Das Kapital, Karl Marx published...
Les mer
The Wandering Jew
According to the myth of the Wandering Jew, Ahasverus denied Christ a resting place while Christ was traveling to Golgotha. In turn, Ahasverus was...
Les mer
A Perfect Vacuum
In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature--works that, in many cases, could not...
Les mer
Saying I No More
In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labor of refusal: not only of what traditionally has made...
Les mer
A History of Russian Literature
Russian literature has always been inseparable from Russian history. D.S. Mirsky constantly keeps in mind the ever-colorful and ever-changing aspects...
Les mer
Appealing Act, An
What makes people sue? Why do individuals who have lost their cases decide to appeal, often at great cost? In this book, Scott Barclay offers the...
Les mer
Self-Awareness and Alterity
In the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its...
Les mer
Dostoevsky’s The Devil
The Devils is one of Dostoevsky's four major novels--and the most openly political of his works. Known by several names, including The Demons and...
Les mer
Shamara and Other Stories
This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel Little Fool, nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history,...
Les mer
The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin
In the field of Russian literary studies, there is surprisingly little discussion of independent genres and their effect on the creativity of an era....
Les mer
Imagined Dialogues
By conducting "imagined dialogues" between selected literary works--Eastern Europeans like Kis and Borowski on one hand, American and...
Les mer
Beyond Being
Hans Georg-Gadamer is best known in the English-speaking world for his major work on philosophical hermeneutics, Truth and Method; he has also...
Les mer
The Ethics of Postmodernity
In The Ethics of Postmodernity, Gary B. Madison and Marty Fairbairn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left...
Les mer
Kotik Letaev
One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, Kotik Letaev, the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of...
Les mer
Eulogy for a Private Man
In poems both intimate and public, meditative and musical, Dings seeks to enrich the present by evoking both the future and the past. Urgent and...
Les mer
Expanding Hermeneutics
Expanding Hermeneutics examines the development of interpretation theory, emphasizing how science in practice involves and implicates interpretive...
Les mer
