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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

By: Joseph Leo Koerner

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

By: Joseph Leo Koerner

So foundational is this invention to modern aesthetics, Koerner argues, that interpreting it takes us to the limits of traditional art-historical method. Self-portraiture becomes legible less through a history leading up to it, or through a sum of contexts that occasion it, than through its historical sight-line to the present. After a thorough examination of Durer's startlingly new self-portraits, the author turns to the work of Baldung, Durer's most gifted pupil, and demonstrates how the apprentice willfully disfigured Durer's vision. Baldung replaced the master's self-portraits with some of the most obscene and bizarre pictures in the history of art. In images of nude witches, animated cadavers, and copulating horses, Baldung portrays the debased self of the viewer as the true subject of art. The Moment of Self-Portraiture thus unfolds as passages from teacher to student, artist to viewer, reception, all within a culture that at once deified and abhorred originality.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226449998

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9780226449999

Ghosts of Home

The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

By: Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer

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The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

By: Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer

In the Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after WWII - yet an idealized version lives on. This book chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.

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390

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Univ of California Press

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0520271254

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9780520271258

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought

By: Leo Strauss

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Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought

By: Leo Strauss

This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker. These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted. These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.

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526

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State University of New York Press

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1438421443

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9781438421445

Leo Strauss on Hegel

By: Leo Strauss

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Leo Strauss on Hegel

By: Leo Strauss

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in his debate in On Tyranny with Alexandre Kojève; and in his account of the “three waves” of modern political philosophy. Leo Strauss on Hegel reconstructs Strauss’s seminar on Hegel, supplemented by passages from an earlier version of the seminar from which only fragments of a transcript remain. Strauss focused his seminar on the lectures collected in The Philosophy of History, which he considered more accessible than Hegel’s written works. In his own lectures on Hegel, Strauss continues his project of demonstrating how modern philosophers related to ancient thought and explores the development and weaknesses of modern political theory. Strauss is especially concerned with the relationship in Hegel between empirical history and his philosophy of history, and he argues for the primacy of religion in Hegel’s understanding of history and society. In addition to a relatively complete transcript, Leo Strauss on Hegel also includes annotations, which bring context and clarity to the text.

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428

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University of Chicago Press

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0226816788

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9780226816784

National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe

By: Leo van den Berg,Erik Braun

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National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe

By: Leo van den Berg,Erik Braun

This book presents a unique overview of urban policy conducted by national authorities in the fifteen 'old' member states of the EU. Focussing on recent changes in the development of the larger cities and changes in policymaking by national authorities with respect to urban development, the book is structured around 15 'country chapters', written by national experts in the field of urban development. The book provides an up-to-date source of information, and will be of importance to anyone involved in the role and development of European cities as well as the formulation and delivery of associated national policies.

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Routledge

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1317090047

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9781317090045

New Nationalism (The) (Ppr)

By: Louis Leo Snyder

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New Nationalism (The) (Ppr)

By: Louis Leo Snyder

In Snyder's opinion, nationalism should be differentiated from Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism," a phrase he borrowed from Herbert D. Croly's The Promise of American Life. Croly warned that giving too much power to big industry and finance would lead to the degradation of the masses, and that state and federal intervention must be pursued on all economic fronts. Roosevelt expanded upon this concept, and saw the flourishing of democratic government as a means of reviving the old pioneer sense of individualism and opportunity. Snyder, in contrast, extends the work of the two major pioneers in the study of modern nationalism, Carlton J. H. Hayes and Hans Kohn, in exploring this most powerful sentiment of modern times, and showing how it relates to the political, economic, and psychological tendencies of historical development."--BOOK JACKET.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412838029

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9781412838023

The Times and Appeasement

The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939

By: Aubrey Leo Kennedy

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The Times and Appeasement

The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939

By: Aubrey Leo Kennedy

A. L. Kennedy, the son of a British diplomat, began a long career in journalism with The Times before the First World War. When he returned to the newspaper in 1919 - as Captain Kennedy - he began to keep a journal of his activities and ideas, his conversations with politicians, officials and journalists. This book is an edited and annotated selection from his journals between 1932 and 1939, during which period he served as The Times' assistant foreign editor and in which capacity he was responsible for most of the leading articles on foreign affairs. His journals provide a fascinating insight into the complicated relationship between The Times and the government: intriguing to read, they are an extremely valuable source for historians of diplomacy politics and journalism in Britain between the wars and help to illuminate our understanding of 'appeasement'.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521793548

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9780521793544

Catalog of the Archival Collections

By: Leo Baeck Institute

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Catalog of the Archival Collections

By: Leo Baeck Institute

One of the primary reasons for founding the Leo Baeck Institute was to create a place where the remnants of public and family archives of German Jewry could be collected and preserved for study and research. It includes over 4,000 collections.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161455975

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9783161455971

Leo Strauss

The Early Writings (1921-1932)

By: Leo Strauss

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Leo Strauss

The Early Writings (1921-1932)

By: Leo Strauss

This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss's thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish 'renaissance' in the 1920s. Themes range from the Enlightenment critique of the religion of Spinoza and the anti-critique of Jacobi, to the political Zionism of Herzl and the cultural Zionism of Buber and Ahad Ha'am. The essays and reviews reprinted in this volume document a youth caught in the "theological-political" conflict between the irretrievability of premodern religion and the disenchantedness of "honest" atheism, an impossible alternative that precipitated Strauss to seek out the possibility of a return to the level of natural ignorance presupposed in Socratic political philosophy.

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260

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State University of New York Press

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0791488829

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9780791488829

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

Ghosts of Home

Ghosts of Home

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Leo Strauss on Hegel

Leo Strauss on Hegel

National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe

National Policy Responses to Urban Challenges in Europe

New Nationalism (The) (Ppr)

New Nationalism (The) (Ppr)

The Times and Appeasement

The Times and Appeasement

Catalog of the Archival Collections

Catalog of the Archival Collections

Leo Strauss

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