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The Hermeneutics of Original Argument
What, precisely, does the word hermeneutics mean? And in what sense can one speak of the hermeneutics of original argument? In The Hermeneutics of... Les mer
The Psychological Mystique
The Psychological Mystique weighs the extraordinary influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the... Les mer
Crossing Boundaries
Perhaps no idea is more emblematic of the field of law and society than crossing boundaries. From the founding of the Law and Society Association in... Les mer
The Letters and Journals
One of the great modern painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer who left behind journals and a sizable correspondence. This edition... Les mer
Dahomean Narrative
This new edition brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the luminaries of American... Les mer
Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler
One of nineteenth-century Russia's finest prose writers, Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov's Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is companion to his... Les mer
Novel with Cocaine
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank... Les mer
Hourglass
Danilo Kis was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one... Les mer
Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
"Lively and detailed." --Michael Hofmann, New York Times Book Review "What Freedman's book does, and more thoroughly than any... Les mer
Dear Friend
In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly... Les mer
Poetry on and off the Page Essays for Emergent Occasions
These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and... Les mer
Old Wine
Dramatizing the international sweep of Phyllis Bottome's political ethics, feminism, and activism, Old Wine is as meaningful today as it was... Les mer
Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto
Isaiah Spiegel was an inmate of the Lodz Ghetto from its inception in 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. While there, he wrote short stories... Les mer
Reduction and Givenness
Through careful analysis of phenomenological texts by Husserl and Heidegger, Marion argues for the necessity of a third phenomenological reduction... Les mer
The Disinterested Witness
The Disinterested Witness is a detailed, contextual, and interpretive study of the concept of saksin (or that which directly or immediately... Les mer
The Disposition of the Subject
The unprecedented mass manipulation, mass death, and trauma of World War II created a heightened interest in technology and totalitarianism among... Les mer
The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty provides a balanced portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. Essays by leading... Les mer
Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Dostoevsky's most mysterious and... Les mer
Duino Elegies - A Bilingual Edition
The Duino Elegies are the culmination of the development of Rilke's poetry. A summary of his spiritual troubles, perhaps no volume of poems in a... Les mer
The Town of N
Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N, an unrecognized masterpiece of the Soviet 1930s, virtually vanished, together with its author, following its... Les mer
Traveling on One Leg
Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and... Les mer
Angel Riding a Beast
The poems in Angel Riding a Beast are the stunning expression of the Romanian poet Liliana Ursu's years in America. The sadness and paradoxes of... Les mer
Russian Subjects
Although Russia's major Golden Age writers have had numerous book-length studies devoted to them by distinguished American slavists, no Western... Les mer
Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlyovs
This companion to M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlyovs opens with a general introduction discussing the work in the context of... Les mer