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  • THE MUSES ON THEIR LUNCH HOUR
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    THE MUSES ON THEIR LUNCH HOUR
    MARJORIE GARBER
    “Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly   As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays uses these figures of ancient legend to explore such modern-day topics as the curious ret...

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  • HEIDEGGER, PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICS
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    HEIDEGGER, PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICS
    JACQUES DERRIDA / HANS-GEORG GADAMER / PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE
    Three renowned philosophers discuss the work of Martin Heidegger, and the moral quandary of engaging with a major philosopher who was also a Nazi.   In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thou...

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  • PLASTICITY AND PATHOLOGY
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    PLASTICITY AND PATHOLOGY
    DAVID BATES
    Two leading neuroscientists examine the current paradigm of the “neural subject” and what we can learn from neurological trauma, pathology, and adaption.   With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, the study of human subjects—thinking, feeling, acting individuals—ultimately focuses on the human brain. In both Europe and the United States, massive st...

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  • THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
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    THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
    MARK BULIK
    An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America’s first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy).   A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, organizing strikes, murdering mine bosses, and fighting the Civil War draft....

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  • THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION
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    THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION
    HAROLD HOLZER
    Diverse perspectives on Lincoln’s assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today’s leading Lincoln scholars.   The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild...

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  • NIETZSCHE AND THE BECOMING OF LIFE
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    NIETZSCHE AND THE BECOMING OF LIFE
    VANESSA LEMM
    “This exciting collection of essays challenges existing interpretations of several key moments of Nietzsche’s philosophy.” —Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia   Throughout his writing career, Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the comp...

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  • THE RILKE ALPHABET
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    THE RILKE ALPHABET
    ULRICH BAER
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet’s work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.   Ulrich Baer’s The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world’s greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life’s mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke’s l...

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  • THE DIARY OF PRISONER 17326
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    THE DIARY OF PRISONER 17326
    JOHN K. STUTTERHEIM
    A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese.   As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a ...

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  • HUNGARY IN WORLD WAR II
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    HUNGARY IN WORLD WAR II
    DEBORAH S. CORNELIUS
    A historian examines why Hungary allied with the Nazis, and the devastating consequences for the country.   The full story of Hungary’s participation in World War II is part of a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously untapped sources and interviews she conducted for this book, Deborah S. Cornelius provides a clear account of ...

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  • A CENTURY OF SUBWAYS
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    A CENTURY OF SUBWAYS
    BRIAN J. CUDAHY
    The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway.   On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains of the newly inaugurated Interborough Rapid Transit System. More than a century later,...

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  • NIETZSCHE'S ANIMAL PHILOSOPHY
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    NIETZSCHE'S ANIMAL PHILOSOPHY
    VANESSA LEMM
    “[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche’s most original, attentive, and lively readers.” —The Journal of Nietzsche Studies   This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche’s body of work. Vanessa Lemm argues that the animal is neither a ...

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  • LINCOLN REVISITED
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    LINCOLN REVISITED
    HAROLD HOLZER / DAWN VOGEL
    This essay collection “draws together some of the best and brightest Abraham Lincoln scholars around” for a fresh and enlightening view of his life (The Journal of American History).   More than 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains the most written-about figure in American history. Lincoln Revisited is a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Linc...

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  • THE GENERAL & HIS DAUGHTER
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    THE GENERAL & HIS DAUGHTER
    BARBARA GAVIN FAUNTLEROY
    The fascinating personal correspondence from a commanding general of the eighty-second Airborne Division to his young daughter during World War II.   James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the eighty-second Airborne Division—America’s first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944,...

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  • BEING BRAINS
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    BEING BRAINS
    FERNANDO VIDAL / FRANCISCO ORTEGA
    This “interesting, informative, and provocative book” explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and “the view that we are essentially our brains” (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).   Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, t...

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  • FORDHAM, A HISTORY OF THE JESUIT UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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    FORDHAM, A HISTORY OF THE JESUIT UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    THOMAS J. SHELLEY
    Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education that took place in the United States in the twentieth century. This was refl...

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  • TIME TRAVEL
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    TIME TRAVEL
    DAVID WITTENBERG
    This “stimulating contribution to literary theory” reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi (London Review of Books).   In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative “laboratory” where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about th...

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  • FOR STRASBOURG
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    FOR STRASBOURG
    JACQUES DERRIDA
    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—“an illuminating addition to his legacy” (The Times Literary Supplement).   A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and G...

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  • THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
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    THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
    MICHAEL NAAS
    A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher’s final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality.   For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003, he delivered the final work in this series, entitled “The Beast and the Sovereign.” As...

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  • DESERTER COUNTRY
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    DESERTER COUNTRY
    ROBERT M. SANDOW
    A “balanced, compelling” study of one rural region in the North where war resistance flourished (Civil War Times).   During the Civil War, there were explosions of resistance to the war throughout the Union—from the deadly draft riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert M. Sandow explores one of these least known “inner civil wars”:...

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  • SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED
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    SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED
    “Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).   With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch a...

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  • EXPLORING LINCOLN
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    EXPLORING LINCOLN
    HAROLD HOLZER, CRAIG L. SYMONDS, AND FRANK J. WILLIAMS
    In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America’s greatest president.   Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, n...

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  • THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
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    THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
    SARAH WINTER
    How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice   What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, ...

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  • KANT ON THE FRONTIER
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    KANT ON THE FRONTIER
    GEOFFREY BENNINGTON
    A philosophical exploration of Kant’s writings on teleology, history, and politics and how the concept of the frontier shapes—and complicates—his thought.   At a time when all borders, boundaries, and limits are being challenged, erased, or reinforced—often violently—we must rethink the concept of frontier. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative r...

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  • MONKEY TROUBLE
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    MONKEY TROUBLE
    CHRISTOPHER PETERSON
    According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. The displacement of the human is essential and urgent, yet given the humanist...

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  • OUR COUNTRY
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    OUR COUNTRY
    GRANT BRODRECHT
    “A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era.” —Civil War News   Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves’...

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  • INVENTING AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CRISIS
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    INVENTING AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CRISIS
    LUKE RITTER
    Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians ha...

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  • CONVERSION IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
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    CONVERSION IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
    ROGER A. WARD
    In this fresh, provocative account of the American philosophical tradition, Roger Ward explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, Ward threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. Looking at Dewey, James, Peirce, R...

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  • FAITH IN LIFE
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    FAITH IN LIFE
    DONALD J. MORSE
    This is the first book to consider John Dewey’s early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey’s early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey’s early philoso...

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  • QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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    QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
    MICHAEL EPPERSON
    In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of scienc...

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