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Brand: Eugenia Parise
EAN: 9788895366784
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Attraverso le vicende biografiche, intellettuali e politiche di Hannah Arendt, un'ebrea tedesco-americana, e Edward Said, un palestinese americano, l'autrice ripercorre alcuni momenti significativi del conflitto che, fin dagli anni Venti del Novecento, ha contrapposto le aspirazioni sioniste (che porteranno nel 1948 alla nascita dello Stato di Israele in Palestina) alle reazioni del popolo palestinese alla espropriazione della propria terra. Con voci diverse, Arendt e Said hanno raccontato la storia di quel conflitto e la sua genesi, tragicamente intrecciata alle vicende europee di fine Ottocento (segnate da imperialismo, nazionalismo e antisemitismo) e della prima metà del Novecento (primo conflitto mondiale e nazismo). Alle profetiche previsioni di Arendt, che sin dagli anni Quaranta temette un esito catastrofico dell'avventura sionista, si affianca, in contrappunto, la voce di Said che, pur denunciando l'originaria ingiustizia storica subita dal popolo palestinese - che ancora attende almeno un risarcimento morale -, ritiene sia possibile arginare la catastrofe che abita in quel disgraziato lembo di terra mediorientale, purché la pace sia coniugata con la giustizia, al di là delle truffaldine formule degli accordi di Oslo che, costruite dagli israeliani e dagli americani, hanno fatto sì che il conflitto si incancrenisse e la tragedia del popolo palestinese si aggravasse. Un ammonimento per l'oggi?

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Brand: Hannah Hillam
EAN: 9781035411054
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"Simultaneously hilarious, thoughtful, and bizarre.\" - Nathan W. Pyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Strange Planet\n\nThe first collection from comic artist Hannah Hillam poses the question: What if our cats were responsible for taking care of us for a change?\n\nFollowing an unwitting human who finds herself in a world where humans' and cats' roles have reversed, Cat People examines the special and inscrutable relationship we have with our feline companions, revealing the delightful absurdities of both species along the way.\n\nOnly the keen eyes of cats could so sharply examine the most bizarre human behaviors we don't think twice about, including grooming, eating, sleeping, working, and competing with other humans for attention and territory. By flipping the script and casting humans in the role of pet, Hannah Hillam spins an unforgettable tail of the unique love and often baffling coexistence between cats and people.\n\n\"Cat People is equal parts hilarious, adorable, and unhinged--okay, maybe a touch more unhinged. Hannah's signature art style and visceral humor are coupled with the best subject matter: cats! This is a must-buy for all cat lovers out there, especially if your beloved animal was rescued from the outside . . . or through a vomitous portal.\" -Andrew Marttila, The Cat Photographer\n\n\"Delightfully weird and funny, and it somehow made me a better cat owner.\" -Zach Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling co-author of Soonish and A City on Mars\n\n\"Such a fun read . . . with vivid imagination and remarkable attention to detail. One of the many reasons I love Hillam's work is how far she's willing to go to explore her ideas, even if it gets hilariously weird (and it usually does!).\" -Cassandra Calin, author of I Left the House Today!

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Brand: James W. Hall
EAN: 9788817864268
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Il passato torna a ossessionare Hannah Keller, ex agente della polizia di Miami e ora affermata scrittrice di gialli. Proprio quando pensava di aver cancellato per sempre il ricordo del brutale assassinio dei genitori, un crimine rimasto impunito, si è imbattuta in una copia del suo primo romanzo con strane annotazioni scritte a margine, forse un misterioso messaggio che potrebbe metterla sulle tracce del presunto colpevole: un certo Fielding, un truffatore legato al cartello della droga. Ma Hannah ignora di essere la pedina di un gioco più grande di lei. Sfruttando infatti il suo desiderio di vendetta, nei confronti di Fielding, l'FBI ha infatti deciso di servirsi della scrittrice come esca per catturare uno psicopatico, un feroce killer.

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EAN: 9781496822529
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jordan Burke, Rebecca Bennett Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew B. Leiter, Sean McCann, Conor Picken, Natalie J. Ring, Calvin Schermerhorn, and Jay Watson.\n\nWilliam Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nThis volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner's work.\n\nContributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of anti-slavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner's work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner's fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian's artistic vision.

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Brand: Richard J. Bernstein
EAN: 9780812212167
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty.

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Brand: Nicholas Jenkins
EAN: 9780571239016
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.\n\nW. H. Auden is a towering figure in modern literary history with a complex private self. Hannah Arendt wrote that he had 'the necessary secretiveness of the great poet'. The Island lays bare for the first time some of the most telling 'secrets' of Auden's early poetry, his world, his emotional life, his values and the sources of his art.\n\nIn a book that is an argument but also a story, Nicholas Jenkins gives compelling readings of iconic poems. He presents Auden in the inter-War years as both a visionary writer, creatively dependent on dreams and intuitions, and a traumatized poet, haunted by war and suffering, and shadowed by his outsider status as a privileged but queer man.\n\nThe Island considers, as well, Auden's imaginative flirtations with a lyrical nationalism appealing to a poet who, for a while, felt his psyche was like a map of English culture. The narrative ends in Auden's disillusionment with these potent myths and beliefs and the time when he left 'the island'.\n\nAuden's preoccupations - with the vicissitudes of war and the problems of love, belonging and identity - are of their time but they still resonate profoundly today.\n\n 'A superb, deeply researched study of Auden's early work and identity. Jenkins's understanding of young Auden as a poet shaped and haunted by the First World War - assimilating the influence of\nWilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Robert Graves, and W. H. R. Rivers - is convincing, original, and poignant. Fusing biography, cultural history, and literary criticism in innovative and elegant ways,\nThe Island is a landmark publication in modernist studies.'\nHeather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath\n\n'Nicholas Jenkins is one of our most perceptive and resourceful'Nicholas Jenkins is one of our most perceptive and resourceful critics. In this wonderful study of the early Auden, he brings to bear history, biography, and an acute sense of the artistic moment to fashion for us a young genius who is conservative, bucolic, gay, a patriotic adherent of post-imperial Little England. Most people work backwards from a writer's ultimate reputation, but Jenkins gives us a new, unexpected image of a poet developing in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of modernism.'\nEdmund White, author of The Humble Lover\n\n'The Island is a Copernican Revolution in Auden studies, a revelatory and often exciting book that presents a new and convincing account of Auden's early years. It explores, for the first time, the deep connections between the inner workings of his poems and the worlds of politics and economics. By bringing to light Auden's ambition to be a national poet, Jenkins transforms our understanding of not only Auden himself but all of modernist literature.'\nEdward Mendelson,...

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Brand: Ralf Dahrendorf
EAN: 9788842081746
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Karl Popper, Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron, Norberto Bobbio, Hannah Arendt e George Orwell - ma anche figure più contraddittorie e dal percorso non lineare, come Theodor W. Adorno - hanno resistito alle lusinghe del potere dei regimi illiberali del fascismo e del nazionalsocialismo, come del crescente potere comunista, e non hanno rinnegato i propri ideali. A queste figure-modello Ralf Dahrendorf ha trovato un nome: erasmiani li chiama, in omaggio a Erasmo da Rotterdam, che già cinquecento anni fa dimostrava, non senza contraddizioni, di possedere le virtù che rendono alcuni immuni alle tentazioni dell'illiberalità. Gli \"uomini-Erasmo\", sostiene Dahrendorf, non sono eroi, non sono lottatori della resistenza, sono invece accomunati da un atteggiamento mentale - la sapienza dell'osservazione impegnata e la saggezza della ragione dolente - che li aiuta a mantenere la rotta anche attraverso tempi in cui altri intellettuali, come Martin Heidegger, spesso fanno naufragio. La lucida penna di Dahrendorf esplora biografie esemplari di una generazione che, nata tra il 1900 e il 1910, ha sperimentato sulla propria persona la seduzione del potere totalitario senza cedere, per tratteggiare una generale dottrina della virtù della libertà che travalica il tempo. Un libro che è al tempo stesso affresco d'epoca, ricostruzione storica e illuminante saggio di etica politica.

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