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Civil Wars

From L. A. to Bosnia

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Civil Wars

From L. A. to Bosnia

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

In "Civil Wars," Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence" a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.

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156584209X

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9781565842090

Europe, Europe

Forays Into a Continent

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Europe, Europe

Forays Into a Continent

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

This is a record of an extraordinary journey around Europe, made by a poet and essayist who went to countries outside the stream of modern history. He takes the reader beyond stereotypes and headlines to nations that refuse to conform to the main political trends of East or West.

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340

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Vintage

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0091742226

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9780091742225

Zig Zag

The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Zig Zag

The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Witty and engaging essays from the writer hailed as the equal of George Orwell and Edmund Wilson. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "that most rambunctious of all critics--an iconoclast," Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the leading German social critic of his generation. For more than forty years, Enzensberger's engaging and witty essays have won acclaim worldwide. "Zig Zag" presents Enzensberger's most recant work along with his most important essays. Covering a wide range of contemporary politics and culture, the book includes Enzensberger's provocative essays on such topics as the parallels between Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein and the recurrence of fascism in Western Europe. "Zig Zag" also features Enzensberger's classic pieces on contemporary culture, a fascinating recent study of the transformation of luxury, and an amusing "obituary for fashion," in which Enzensberger laments Western style's decline into a kind of studied casualness. "Zig Zag" shows us why Enzensberger has become the master of cultural criticism, with work that never fails to surprise and to provoke.

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342

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156584436X

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9781565844360

The Number Devil

A Mathematical Adventure

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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The Number Devil

A Mathematical Adventure

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

In 12 dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonders of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and numbers that expand without end.

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Macmillan

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0805062998

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9780805062991

Drawbridge Up

Mathematics--A Cultural Anathema

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Mathematics--A Cultural Anathema

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

This bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K. H. Hofmann and an introduction by David Mumford, discusses the role of mathematics within our culture.

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A K Peters/CRC Press

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156881156X

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9781568811567

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