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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Hardcover 1959 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Patchy fading to covers. Text in good condition. [viii, 145 p. illus. 24 cm].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 421p., illus. 24 cm.

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good and probably unused. HAN, HAHRIE. Moved to action: motivation, participation, and inequality in American politics. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2009, xi, 191pp., . "Wealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved to Action fills the current gap in this area of research by examining the commitments and pathways through which the underprivileged become engaged in politics." - CONTENTS: he challenge of political equality -- Theoretical foundations -- Issue publics and the distribution of political motivation -- An empirical look at issue publics and participation -- Pathways to participation -- Looking ahead. ISBN 9780804762250.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xiv, 207 p. Binding fresh, corners sharp; contents as new. Dust wrapper as new. 450 grams.

PAPERBACK, very good. previous owner's name inside front cover. SHERWIN, MARTIN J. A world destroyed: Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race. Foreword by Robert J. Lifton. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004, later printing of the Third Edition, xl, 375pp., . The assumptions and attitudes behind opposing views over nuclear weapons were formed in secret during World War II during the discussions about building the bombs and then using them against urban targets. Sherwin (history, Tufts U.) argues that many of the ideas that were originally intended to avert a nuclear arms race after the war were ironically responsible for nuclear proliferation. He examines the decision making process that resulted in the destruction of Hiroshima, suggesting that the use of the bomb was not considered the only option for Japanese surrender, but instead the best political option, especially vis-à-vis Soviet entry into the war. 9780804739573 ISBN 0804739579.

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-. Nudities. Translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011, ix, 121pp., PAPERBACK, pencil lines in margins in first 16 pages, a few lines underlined on a couple of pages, otherwise very good. Series: Meridian (Stanford). - CONTENTS: Creation and salvation -- What is the contemporary? -- K. -- On the uses and disadvantages of living among specters -- On what we can not do -- Identity without the person -- Nudity -- The glorious body -- Hunger of an ox -- The last chapter in the history of the world. ISBN 9780804769501.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 248 pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers fresh, a trace of wear to edges; contents fine. 310 grams.

Softcover. XVIII, 268 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Bibl.-Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and catalognumber on spine. GOOD condition, some traces of use. FAIII99/10 0804720754 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

PAPERBACK, some ink underlining on a few pages, dog-eared, otherwise still quite good copy for reading. MEHLMAN, JEFFREY. Adventures in the French trade: fragments toward a life - SOME MARKINGS. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010, xiv, 173pp., . Series: Cultural memory in the present. - This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French "theory" in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for France and the French. The reader will encounter a number of masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade illustrates and illuminates an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. A provocative response to the numerous my-life-in-France books published in recent years, it should also be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself., "This wondrous memoir draws the reader into a unique career and `trade' that have been points of reference on the horizon of French letters since the middle 1960s. It is sensuous, engaging, of great sweep, and in its observations both cutting and entertaining. No one of his generation bears the same signature as Jeffrey Mehlman; Adventures in the French Trade tells us why."--Tom Conley, Harvard University., "This highly personal, remarkably irritating, and unmistakably brilliant memoir presents an intriguing variety of academic situations interwoven with certain crucial political and cultural affairs in France over the years and their repercussions in the United States. Its unmistakable voice (so very Mehlman) is the source of its fascination."--Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York - CONTENTS: Beginning and end -- Initiation -- Cities : New York/Angoulême ; Boston/Vichy -- Fathers : Hugo 2000 -- fiction ; Kandahar 2000 -- fact -- Teachers : Chiasmus ; Derrida ; Bellow in Boston ; Antinomian Steiner ; A professor retires -- Students : Genet in New Haven -- repercussions and resonances ; Mother Harvard ; The heart of the matter (a graduation speech) -- Semblables et frères : Louis Wolfson ; Walter Benjamin ; Afrancesado -- coda in Buenos Aires. ISBN 9780804769624.

PAPERBACK, very good, slightest wear to one corner. VATTIMO, GIANNI. Belief. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999, 98pp., . "In this book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work. Written in a personal, conversational style, Vattimo examines such concepts as charity, truth, dogmatism, morality and sin through the lens of his own life and his own return to Christianity." "At the center of the book is the enigma of belief. Freed by modernity from its Platonic subordination to knowledge, belief is recovered as a crucial and inevitable feature of our cultural and personal lives. "Do you believe?" Vattimo is asked. "I believe so," he replies." "Through an analysis of his own responses to the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo explores the relationship between the nihilism and his own life as a devout Catholic, leading him to conclude that secularization stems from a Christian impulse, and that nihilism too could only have emerged from a Christian culture." "This original contribution to the contemporary debate on religion will be of interest to scholars and students of theology, religious studies and philosophy.". ISBN 0804739196.

Budick, Sanford / Iser, Wolfgang, ed. The Translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Edited by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996, Original printing 1996, xiv, 348pp., PAPERBACK, top foredge soiled, and a few flecks on rear cover, otherwise very good copy. Irvine studies in the humanities. - Translation between any two languages sets in motion a tug-of-war around those aspects of each language that are least accessible to agreed-upon equivalents, around those aspects of expression and understanding that are unique to a given culture. This struggle - between possession and dispossession, or between reinscription and obliteration - is necessarily perilous for the culture that has less power to retain the usages of its language. Since translation wields powerful forces of cultural change, it is an arena both of the global coercions of national cultures and of the local dominations of everyday others by everyday selves. Thus the ethics of translation are both the ethics of cross-cultural discourse and the unit problem of ethical discourse itself., The fourteen essays in this volume - which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan - address both sorts of discourse and elucidate the two-way or mutual conditioning of cultural positions as well as the illusions and exclusions created by mutuality. In short, the essays describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. - CONTENTS: Crises of alterity : cultural untranslatability and the experience of secondary otherness / Sanford Budick -- Perspectives in history -- Translating gods : religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability / Jan Assmann -- Visual syncretism : a case study / Moshe Barasch -- Translatio studii and Renaissance : from vertical to horizontal translation / Karlheinz Stierle -- Augustine, Chaucer, and the translation of biblical poetics / Lawrence Besserman -- The curse and blessing of Babel, or, looking back on universalisims / Aleida Assmann -- Emerson's constitutional amending : reading "fate" / Stanley Cavell -- The Holocaust and the construction of modern American literary criticism : the case of Lionel Trilling / Emily Miller Budick -- Discovering America : a cross-cultural perspective / Sacvan Bercovitch -- "It is time" : the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible translation in context / Klaus Reichert -- The black hole of culture : Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, "in Japan everything normal") / Ludwig Pfeiffer -- Models of relationship -- Border crossings, translating theory : Ruth / J. Hillis Miller -- Cross-culture, chiasmus, and the manifold of mind / Sanford Budick -- The emergence of a cross-cultural discourse : Thomas Carlyle's Sartor resartus / Wolfgang Iser -- Memory and cultural translation / Gabriel Motzkin -- Remarks on the foreign (strange) as a figure of cultural ambivalence / Renate Lachmann -- Coda to the discussion / Wolfgang Iser. 9780804725613 ISBN 0804725616.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good condition. c1958. 196 p. 22 cm.

sewn PAPERBACK, very good. VATTIMO, GIANNI. Beyond interpretation: the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy. Translated by David Webb. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1997, x, 129pp., . This new book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo develops a new interpretation of hermeneutics that dispenses with the traditional bias toward aesthetic experience. His radical interpretation breaks the link between hermeneutics and metaphysical humanism, challenges the traditional opposition of the natural and human sciences, and opens up new perspectives on ethics, art and religion. Beyond Interpretation will be welcomed by students and researchers in philosophy and social theory. - CONTENTS: 1. The Nihilistic Vocation of Hermeneutics -- 2. Science -- 3. Ethics -- 4. Religion -- 5. Art -- Appendix 1. The Truth of Hermeneutics -- Appendix 2. The Reconstruction of Rationality. 9780804729949 ISBN 0804729948.

, Brandt, Joan Elizabeth. Geopoetics : the politics of mimesis in poststructuralist French poetry and theory. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997, xii, 288pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth. 9780804727600 ISBN 0804727600.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. x, 444 pages. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket. Publisher's cloth-covered boards fresh, corners sharp; contents fine. The price-clipped dust jacket shows shelfwear and edgewear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 334 pages : illustrations. Binding fresh, corners sharp, minor wear to head and foot of spine; previous owner's chopstamp to foot of title page, contents unmarked and attractive. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Laid in is a typescript draft of a review (published in JRAS September 15, 1972). 570 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1981 printing. Binding fresh, corners sharp; contents as new. 1240 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover 1928 Spanish text. Inscribed and signed by S.L. Millard Rosenberg dated 1929. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Covers and text in very good condition. Series: Stanford Spanish Series. [xxxv, 210 p. front. (port.) 18 cm]. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: gut. 304 S., 24 cm. Sprache: Englisch.

Leinen. Zustand: Gut. 22,5cm XVII.; 209. Hardcover oder Leinen. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Sehr Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; Eine untere Außenecke gering bestoßen; Schutzumschlag (hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren); [LOC-SH: Conclit entre le Honduras et le Salvador, 1969 ; El Salvador -- Rural conditions ; Honduras -- Rural conditions ; Salvador -- Conditions rurales ; Honduras -- Conditions rurales -- El Salvador -- Honduras ; El Salvador-Honduras Conflict, 1969 ; Honduras -- Rural conditions ; El Salvador -- Rural conditions ; El Salvador-Honduras Conflict, 1969 ; El Salvador -- Rural conditions ; Honduras -- Rural conditionsEl Salvador Honduras Conflicto, 1969 ; Honduras / Condiciones rurales ; Electronic books ; Honduras ; El Salvador ; Rural conditions ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico] * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xvi, 490 p. : ill. Binding fresh, orners sharp; contents as new. Minor wear to dust wrapper. 900 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. viii, 108 p. front., plates. 23 cm.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, very good. BLANCHOT, MAURICE. Friendship. Translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997, viii, 309pp., . Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era. - CONTENTS: 1. The Birth of Art -- 2. The Museum, Art, and Time -- 3. Museum Sickness -- 4. The Time of Encyclopedias -- 5. Translating -- 6. The Great Reducers -- 7. Man at Point Zero -- 8. Slow Obsequies -- 9. On One Approach to Communism -- 10. Marx's Three Voices -- 11. The Apocalypse Is Disappointing -- 12. War and Literature -- 13. Refusal -- 14. Destroy -- 15. Idle Speech -- 16. Battle with the Angel -- 17. Dreaming, Writing -- 18. The Ease of Dying -- 19. The Laughter of the Gods -- 20. A Note on Transgression -- 21. The Detour Toward Simplicity -- 21. The Fall: The Flight -- 23. The Terror of Identification -- 24. Traces -- 25. Gog and Magog -- 26. Kafka and Brod -- 27. The Last Word -- 28. The Very Last Word. 9780804727594 ISBN 0804727597.

very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, old price label on front endpaper. HADARI, SAGUIV A. Theory in practice: Tocqueville's new science of politics. Preface by Ingrid Creppell. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989, vii, 182pp., . 9780804717045 ISBN 0804717044.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. viii, 280 p. : ill. Boards and backstrip bright, corners sharp; contents as new. Dust wrapper is crisp and bright. 620 grams.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, very good, small but deep fold mark on rear outer corner, light wear to foredges and corners. HAMACHER, WERNER. Premises: essays on philosophy and literature from Kant to Celan. Translated by Peter Fenves. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999, reprinted, 400pp., . Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) "Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself";, wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. - CONTENTS: Premises - Hermeneutic ellipses : writing the circle in Schleiermacher - The promise of interpretation : remarks on the hermeneutic imperative in Kant and Nietzsche - Disgregation of the will : Nietzsche on the individual and individuality - Lectio : de Man's imperative - Position exposed : Friedrich Schlegel's poetological transposition of Fichte's absolute proposition - The quaking of presentation : Kleist's Earthquake in Chile - The gesture in the name : on Benjamin and Kafka - The second of inversion : movements of a figure through Celan's poetry. ISBN 9780804736206 18.00.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Cloth in dust jacket. Fourth edition. 708 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Mallette Dean (illustrator). 3rd printing. 262p., illus.

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 1st printing. 256p. Very good condition very good d.j.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. x, 411 pages. Series: Stanford studies in the civilizations of eastern Asia. Binding fresh, corners sharp; contents fine. The dust jacket is very good but for two tears and one scratch to front panel. 790 grams.