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Modern German letters, cultures and thought

Signale is a book series for English-language scholarship on the literature, culture, criticism, and intellectual history of the German-speaking world, as well as translations of important German-language works.

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

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

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

Mikko Immanen
Forms of Life: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture

Andreas Gailus
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader

Hans Blumenberg
The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka

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

Aleida Assmann
Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965

Robert Kelz
Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture

Anne Fuchs
Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader

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

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

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

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

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

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

C. K. Martin Chung
Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture

Katja Garloff
Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martin Blumenthal-Barby
The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

Elliott Schreiber
Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman

Tobias Boes
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

Christopher D. Johnson
The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

David Roberts
Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

Jane O. Newman
On The Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

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

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

John Griffith Urang
Paradigms for a Metaphorology

Hans Blumenberg

News

Signale celebrates ten years, welcomes new editor

Signale celebrated two major milestones in 2020: the 10th anniversary of the first books...

Sandler's Counterpreservation wins Society of Architectural Historians' book award

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Erlin’s Necessary Luxuries wins DAAD/GSA Book Prize

Signale is proud to announce that Matt Erlin’s ...

First books in Cornell Open program now freely available

The first 20 books in the new Cornell Open program...

New open access program at Signale books

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Editors

Series editor

Paul Fleming

Editorial board

Patrizia McBride Leslie Adelson Jonathan Boyarin Enzo Traverso Esra Akcan

Multimedia

Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

Signale offers a freely-accessible, online supplement to Daniela Sandler’s 2016 Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989, featuring over 125 high-resolution photographs of Berlin sites treated in Sandler’s book and streaming audio from an interview with architect Daniel Libeskind.

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