A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poetAn undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside t
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform Americ
Contemporary poets and scholars of poetry present critical or poetico- critical writings, none of which in itself purports to be poetics, but that together--in relation to each other--broadly delineat
This title is one of several by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) being reissued by Northwestern U. Press. In a new foreword, Bernard Dauenhauer (emeritus, philosophy, U. of Georgia) introduces central themes
Ricoeur waited until the 1980s to publish a series of essays on his overriding project, an ontology of action. This edition of the 1991 translation contains the essence of that project, from Ricoeur's
Ricoeur was one of the most original philosophers of the late twentieth century, but he was also a remarkable interpreter of Husserl's work. In these nine essays Ricoeur concentrates on Husserl's phil
Matilde Serao is often considered the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as an important novelist and fiction writer. A keen observer of life and a political ac
The career of J. G. Fichte, a central figure in German idealism and in the history of philosophy, divides into two distinct phases: the first period, in which he occupied the chair of critical philos
Literary journalism might be defined as the ability to find a universal story in a single one. The reporter is not just an observer but has an emotional involvement in the subject. Sims (journalism, U
Nazi Germany’s book burnings, its campaign against “degenerate art,” and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant garde to the brink of extinction. How t
Rereading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. Postmoderni
Through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics, the author explores fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful--desire, repetition, difference, rhythm and the sublime--drawing also from
Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald—have all acknowledge
In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten—obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how these pr
Memory, History, and Responsibility contains the highlights from the ninth Lessons and Legacies Conference, held at the height of the genocide in Darfur. The contributors reexamine how the darkness o
This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Litteraire, Cahiers du Cinema, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthe
Provides a bilingual collection of work comprised of such important works as "The Book of the Monkish Life," "The Book of Pilgrimage," and "The Book of Poverty and Death." Reprint.
In this first English publication of a well-known and widely respected Italian scholar, readers will encounter the preeminent interpreter of the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty engaged in a dialogue o
In this English translation of Gadamer Lesebuch (Mohr, Tubingen, Germany, 1997), Palmer (emeritus, philosophy and religion, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois) compiles 18 essays and an autobio
"The road will be red with monstrous martyrdoms, but we will win!" Oscar Wilde, who figures prominently in Eric Bentley's play Lord Alfred's Lover, wrote these words at the end of the nineteenth centu
