In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and po
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This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theo
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Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stori
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Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new politica
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A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's
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An innovative reconsideration of post-Stalinist Bulgaria in the context of the socialist world and the global 1960s and
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With incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession, this volume discusses the
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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wid
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The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: "Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometime
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Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dicho
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