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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination

Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination

Michael McGillen

Dec 2023 | 354 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501772818

ISBN: 9781501772825

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$32.95 paper, $125.00 hardcover
Writing Time: Studies in Serial Literature (1780-1850)

Writing Time: Studies in Serial Literature (1780-1850)

Sean Franzel

Oct 2023 | 432 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501772443

ISBN: 9781501772450

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$36.95 paper, $125.00 hardcover
The Readability of the World

The Readability of the World

Hans Blumenberg

Dec 2022 | 426 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501766619

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$44.95 hardcover
The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism

The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism

Samuel Frederick

Jan 2022 | 348 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501761553

ISBN: 9781501761560

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$34.95 paper, $125.00 hardcover
St. Matthew Passion, translated by Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming

St. Matthew Passion, translated by Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming

Hans Blumenberg

Nov 2021 | 258 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501705809

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Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Daniel Leonhard Purdy

Oct 2021 | 420 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501759734

ISBN: 9781501759741

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$34.95 paper, $125.00 hardcover
Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School

Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School

Mikko Immanen

Nov 2020 | 330 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501752377

ISBN: 9781501752490

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$27.95 paper, $115.00 hardcover
Forms of Life: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture

Forms of Life: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture

Andreas Gailus

Sep 2020 | 408 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501749803

ISBN: 9781501749810

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$29.95 paper, $115.00 hardcover
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader

History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader

Hans Blumenberg

Jun 2020 | 624 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501747984

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The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka

The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka

Arne Höcker

Jun 2020 | 252 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501749360

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$28.95 paper
Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965
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$25.95 paper
Is Time out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

Is Time out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

Aleida Assmann

Feb 2020 | 264 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501742439

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Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture

Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture

Anne Fuchs

Nov 2019 | 342 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501735103

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$25.95 paper
Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader

Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader

Alexander Kluge

Sep 2019 | 552 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501739200

ISBN: 9781501739217

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$26.95 paper, $95.00 hardcover
No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy

No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy

Willem Styfhals

May 2019 | 276 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-3099-3

ISBN: 978-1-5017-3100-6

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$32.95 paper, $95.00 hardcover
Persistence of Folly: Chapters in the Origin of German Dramatic Literature

Persistence of Folly: Chapters in the Origin of German Dramatic Literature

Joel B. Lande

Nov 2018 | 366 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-2710-8

ISBN: 978-1-5017-2711-5

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$24.95 paper, $95.00 hardcover
The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940

The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940

Eric Downing

Apr 2018 | 366 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501715907

ISBN: 9781501715914

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$29.95 paper, $95.00 hardcover
Rigorism of Truth: "Moses the Egyptian" and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt (trans. Joe Paul Kroll)

Rigorism of Truth: “Moses the Egyptian” and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt (trans. Joe Paul Kroll)

Hans Blumenberg

Feb 2018 | 50 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0481-9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-1672-0

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Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933

Kirsten Leng

Feb 2018 | 392 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0930-2

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0931-9

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$29.95 paper, $95.00 hardcover
Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past

Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past

C. K. Martin Chung

Aug 2017 | 296 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0761-2

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0762-9

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$29.95 paper, $89.95 hardcover
Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture

Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture

Katja Garloff

Dec 2016 | 228 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0496-3

ISBN: 978-1-5017-0497-0

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$29.95 paper, $89.95 hardcover
Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

Daniela Sandler

Nov 2016 | 274 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9781501703164

ISBN: 9781501703171

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$29.95 paper, $89.95 hardcover
Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art

Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art

Sebastian Zeidler

Dec 2015 | 320 pages | 6.1 x 9.3

ISBN: 9781501702082

ISBN: 9780801479847

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$35.00 paper, $99.95 hardcover
Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge

Dec 2015 | 256 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 9780801456954

ISBN: 9780801479328

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$26.95 paper, $79.95 hardcover
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

Sonja Boos

Dec 2014 | 280 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5360-1

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7963-2

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$29.95 paper, $79.95 hardcover
Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815

Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815

Matt Erlin

Jul 2014 | 320 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5304-5

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7940-3

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$29.95 paper, $79.95 hardcover
Berlin Coquette: Prostitution, New Womanhood, and Desire in the German Capital, 1890-1933

Berlin Coquette: Prostitution, New Womanhood, and Desire in the German Capital, 1890-1933

Jill Suzanne Smith

Mar 2014 | 236 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5267-3

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7834-5

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$27.95 paper, $69.95 hardcover
Inconceivable Effects: Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film

Inconceivable Effects: Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film

Martin Blumenthal-Barby

Jun 2013 | 222 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7812-3

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$35.00 paper
The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

Elliott Schreiber

Feb 2013 | 160 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5178-2

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7808-6

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$18.95 paper, $65.00 hardcover
Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman

Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman

Tobias Boes

Dec 2012 | 216 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5177-5 hardcover

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7803-1 paper

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$21.00 paper, $65.00 hardcover
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg’s Atlas of Images

Christopher D. Johnson

Jun 2012 | 288 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7742-3

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$35.00 paper
Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

Benjamin’s Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

Jane O. Newman

Oct 2011 | 272 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7659-4

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$35.00 paper paper
The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

David Roberts

Oct 2011 | 304 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5023-5

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$37.50 paper paper
On The Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

On The Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

Daniel Purdy

Mar 2011 | 272 pages | 6x9

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7676-1

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$35.00 paper
Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

Bethany Wiggin

Feb 2011 | 280 pages | 6x9, 17 halftones

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7680-8

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$39.95 paper
Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

John Griffith Urang

Aug 2010 | 256 pages | 6x9, 6 halftones

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7653-2

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$35.00 paper
Paradigms for a Metaphorology

Paradigms for a Metaphorology

Hans Blumenberg

Aug 2010 | 104 pages | 6x9, 6 halftones

ISBN: 9780801449253

ISBN: 9781501704352

Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press
$21.95 paper, $29.95 hardcover