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Cross of Iron

By: Willi Heinrich

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Cross of Iron, first published in English in 1956 as The Willing Flesh, is a classic, realistic novel of a German Army platoon trapped behind Russian lines on the Eastern Front in World War II. Author Willi Heinrich (1920-2005) served in the heavily mauled 101st Jäger Division, and was himself wounded five times during the war. Cross of Iron was also made into a film of the same name by Sam Peckinpah in 1977.

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1951682289

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Spinoza's Modernity

Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

By: Willi Goetschel

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Spinoza's Modernity

Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

By: Willi Goetschel

Spinoza’s Modernity is a major, original work of intellectual history that reassesses the philosophical project of Baruch Spinoza, uncovers his influence on later thinkers, and demonstrates how that crucial influence on Moses Mendelssohn, G. E. Lessing, and Heinrich Heine shaped the development of modern critical thought. Excommunicated by his Jewish community, Spinoza was a controversial figure in his lifetime and for centuries afterward. Willi Goetschel shows how Spinoza’s philosophy was a direct challenge to the theological and metaphysical assumptions of modern European thought. He locates the driving force of this challenge in Spinoza’s Jewishness, which is deeply inscribed in his philosophy and defines the radical nature of his modernity.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299190838

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9780299190835

Himmler

The Evil Genius of the Third Reich

By: Willi Frischauer

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Himmler

The Evil Genius of the Third Reich

By: Willi Frischauer

Originally published in 1953, this masterly study of Heinrich Himmler is a forceful, dispassionate analysis of a man who rose from obscure beginnings as an agricultural student to a position of almost absolute power, until, in the Nazi twilight, he challenged Hitler himself. Outwardly insignificant, diffident—possessing neither the flamboyance of Goering nor the incisiveness of Goebbels—Himmler, head of the dreaded Secret Police, yet made himself the man most feared in the Nazi hierarchy—and as much by his ‘friends’ as his enemies. Only when the incredible facts about Himmler’s extraordinary hold over his colleagues became known were the full depths of the infamy to which Nazism had brought Germany revealed. Based on journalist Willi Frischauer’s unique knowledge of the background and sequence of events which gave rise to the Hitler regime, he manages to unearth the evidence, building up, stone by stone, the mosaic of Himmler’s true portrait. A fully documented and unforgettable narrative.

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481

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787202410

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9781787202412

Lusitania

The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

By: Willi Jasper

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Lusitania

The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

By: Willi Jasper

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including 128 American citizens, lost their lives. The sinking of a civilian passenger vessel without warning was a scandal of international scale and helped precipitate the United States’ decision to enter the conflict. It also led to the immediate vilification of Germany. Though the ship’s sinking has preoccupied historians and the general public for over a century, until now the German side of the story has been largely untold. Drawing on varied German sources, historian Willi Jasper provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the sinking and its aftermath that focuses on the German reaction and psyche. The attack on the Lusitania, he argues, was not simply an escalation of violence but signaled a new ideological, moral, and religious dimension in the struggle between German Kultur and Western civilization.

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Yale University Press

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0300224249

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9780300224245

Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000

Volume 2

By: Willi Hager

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Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000

Volume 2

By: Willi Hager

More than 850 individuals partly forgotten by name, but sometimes found in historical writings, together with many well known or recently deceased persons are presented in terms of bio-data, short career highlights, and main advances made to the profession with a short biography of the main writings. If available, a portrait is also included.

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CRC Press

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1466554983

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9781466554986

Heine and Critical Theory

By: Willi Goetschel

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Heine and Critical Theory

By: Willi Goetschel

Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that led Adorno to call for a “reappraisal” of Heine in a 1948 essay that, published posthumously, remains under-examined. Tracing Heine's Jewish difference and its liberating comedy of irreverence in the thought of the Frankfurt School, the book situates the project of Critical Theory in the tradition of a praxis of critique, which Heine elevates to the art of public controversy. Heine's bold linking of aesthetics and political concerns anticipates the critical paradigm assumed by Benjamin and Adorno. Reading Critical Theory with Heine recovers a forgotten voice that has theoretically critical significance for the formation of the Frankfurt School. With Heine, the project of Critical Theory can be understood as the sustained effort to advance the emancipation of the affects and the senses, at the heart of a theoretical vision that recognizes pleasure as the liberating force in the fight for freedom.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350087270

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9781350087279

The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

By: Willi Goetschel

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The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

By: Willi Goetschel

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their “Jewish questions” inform the rethinking of philosophy’s disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just “Jewish philosophy” from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823266206

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9780823266203

Historical Anthology of Music: Oriental, medieval and Renaissance music

By: Archibald Thompson Davison,Willi Apel

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Historical Anthology of Music: Oriental, medieval and Renaissance music

By: Archibald Thompson Davison,Willi Apel

This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to 1600. Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography, English translations of foreign texts, and an index. The Library Journal says of it, "in short, Volume 1 of the music historian's classic dreams…No competitors on the market. Highly recommended.

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Harvard University Press

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0674393007

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9780674393004

Historical Anthology of Music: Baroque, rococo, and pre-classical music

By: Archibald Thompson Davison,Willi Apel

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Historical Anthology of Music: Baroque, rococo, and pre-classical music

By: Archibald Thompson Davison,Willi Apel

Presents the history of music by compiling over two hundred annotated compositions which illustrate the various styles, forms, and facets of music.

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Harvard University Press

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0674393015

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9780674393011

The Cross Of Iron

By: Willi Heinrich

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The Cross Of Iron

By: Willi Heinrich

Death Struggle... Tough Sergeant Steiner commanded ten men, a German rear guard trapped fifty miles behind the Russian line. Their path to survival led straight through the entire enemy army. All the murderous hazards of war blocked their march—hunger, exhaustion, terror, treachery, death. Finally, Steiner and his men were no longer fighting for Führer or Fatherland, but for their naked, desperate lives... Acclaimed throughout Europe, The Cross of Iron has been hailed by American critics as “far more monumental than All Quiet on the Western Front” and “savagely powerful.” One of the great war novels of all time, it is a memorable, magnificent portrait of the modern centurion—a towering drama of the death throes of a mighty army.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786257610

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9781786257611

The Languages of Aristophanes

Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek

By: Andreas Willi

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The Languages of Aristophanes

Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek

By: Andreas Willi

By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical observations are combined and supplemented by typological comparisons with material drawn from sociolinguistic research on modern languages. The resulting portrayal of the Attic dialect deepens our understanding of various socio-cultural phenomena reflected in Aristophanes' work.

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Oxford Classical Monographs

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0199262640

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9780199262649

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

By: Willi Apel

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The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

By: Willi Apel

This classic work is a meticulous chronological survey of music for the keyboard from the earliest extant manuscripts of the 14th century to the end of the 17th. Apel traces the evolution of keyboard instruments, genres, national schools and styles (from Poland to Portugal), and the oeuvre of many composers. A monument of scholarship, this indispensable reference work is also remarkably user-friendly and engagingly written throughout.

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Indiana University Press

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0253211417

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9780253211415

Harvard Dictionary of Music

By: Willi Apel

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Harvard Dictionary of Music

By: Willi Apel

Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

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Harvard University Press

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0674375017

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9780674375017

Constituting Critique

Kant's Writing as Critical Praxis

By: Willi Goetschel

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Constituting Critique

Kant's Writing as Critical Praxis

By: Willi Goetschel

Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product--a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing an account of the process that culminated in his three Critiques, this book offers a new perspective on Kant's philosophical thought and practice. Constituting Critique traces the stages in Kant's development to reveal how he redefined philosophy as a critical task. Following the philosopher through the experiments of his early essays, Goetschel demonstrates how Kant tests, challenges, and transforms the philosophical essay in his pursuit of a new self-reflective literary genre. From these experiments, critique emerges as the philosophical form for the critical project of the Enlightenment. The imperatives of its transcendental style, Goetschel contends, not only constitute and inform the critical moment of Kant's philosophical praxis, but also have an enduring place in post-Kantian philosophy and literature. By situating the Critiques within the context of Kant's early essays, this work will redirect the attention of Kant scholars to the origins of their form. It will also encourage contemporary critical theorists to reconsider their own practice through an engagement with its source in Kant.

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Duke University Press

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0822315432

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9780822315438

Book's by Willi Heinrich

Cross of Iron

Cross of Iron

Spinoza's Modernity

Spinoza's Modernity

Himmler

Himmler

Lusitania

Lusitania

Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000

Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000

Heine and Critical Theory

Heine and Critical Theory

The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

Historical Anthology of Music: Oriental, medieval and Renaissance music

Historical Anthology of Music: Oriental, medieval and Renaissance music

Historical Anthology of Music: Baroque, rococo, and pre-classical music

Historical Anthology of Music: Baroque, rococo, and pre-classical music

The Cross Of Iron

The Cross Of Iron

The Languages of Aristophanes

The Languages of Aristophanes

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Constituting Critique

Constituting Critique

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