Book by Poster, Mark

Written primarily in Latin, 1959/1993 edition.

In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a...

He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at...

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many...

The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the...

"Xénophon est devenu l'un des plus commentés des auteurs classiques, recouvrant le rang qui était le sien dans l'Antiquité et jusqu'à l'époque moderne. Ce regain d'intérêt qui s'est manifesté...

Asks what sorts and sources of knowing we should consider compelling as we seek to live morally responsible lives. Contends that Martin Luther's theology of the cross provides a solid theological and...

Philosophen und Dichter begründeten und prägten das politische Denken und damit die Besonderheit der griechischen Polis - der Mutter des europäischen Staatswesens. Die Denker beschäftigten sich mit...

Drawing up alternate ways to "make a living" beyond capitalism To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a...

Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York

"Au-delà des "usages de combat" et des ambiguïtés du totalitarisme, que signifie ce mot qui désigne à la fois un fait (les régimes totalitaires) et un concept (l'État totalitaire comme forme nouvelle...

Detroit. 1987 first edition. hardcover octavo. A translation of Tillich's On the Idea of a Theology of Culture with an Interpretive Essay. Fine. fair, worn, chipped dj.

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks,...

In seinem Buch über Walter Benjamin er wähnte Gershom Scholem eine "Quelle ersten Ranges", die ihm jahrelang ver- schlossen war: seine eigenen Briefe an Walter Benjamin. Durch eine erfreuliche...