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Book Stauffenberg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hoffman
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2008-12-05
  • ISBN : 0773578269
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Stauffenberg written by Peter Hoffman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowledged, but few are aware of the individuals involved. In this detailed family history Peter Hoffmann reveals the tragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and would-be assassin of Adolph Hitler. Hoffmann details Stauffenberg's formative years, showing how his relationship with his brothers Berthold and Alexander, their association with the circle of the poet Stefan George, and their professional and political development led them to resist the tyranny of Hitler and the German government, first through established channels but culminating in the attempted assassination and coup of 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is based on a comprehensive collection of sources, including family papers, correspondence, and information from numerous contemporaries, as well as a unique collection of illustrative material. Hoffmann's knowledge of Stauffenberg was sought for the highly anticipated feature film Valkyrie, for which he served as an advisor. This revised edition includes a new preface by Hoffman and important information he has uncovered since the book was first published.

Book Exile  the Writer s Experience

Download or read book Exile the Writer s Experience written by John M. Spalek and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dependent America

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Cox Redfield
  • Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Dependent America written by William Cox Redfield and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1926 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Democracy and International Law

Download or read book Democracy and International Law written by Gregory H. Fox and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Cold War, international law scholars engaged in furious debate over whether principles of democratic legitimacy had entered international law. Many argued that a 'democratic entitlement' was emerging. Others were skeptical that international practice in democracy promotion was either consistent or sufficiently widespread and many found the idea of democratic entitlement dangerous. Those debates, while ongoing, have not been comprehensively revisited in almost twenty years. Together with an original introduction, this volume collects the leading scholarship of the past two decades on these and other questions. It focuses particular attention on the normative consequences of the recent 'democratic recession' in many regions of the world.

Book Habermas and Pragmatism

Download or read book Habermas and Pragmatism written by Mitchell Aboulafia and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the influences of pragmatism on Habermas' thought. The essays cover subjects including philosophy of language, democracy, nature of rationality and social theory.

Book The Interdependent World and Its Problems

Download or read book The Interdependent World and Its Problems written by Ramsay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yearbook of Morphology 1999

Download or read book Yearbook of Morphology 1999 written by Geert Booij and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to. The Yearbook of Morphology 1999 focuses on diachronic morphology, and shows, in a number of articles by renowned specialists, how complicated morphological systems develop in the course of time. In addition, this volume deals with a number of hotly debated issues in theoretical morphology: its interaction with phonology (including Optimality Theory), the relation between inflection and word formation, and the formal modeling of inflectional systems. A special feature of this volume is an article on morphology in sign language, a very new and exciting area of research in linguistics. The relevant evidence comes from a wide variety of languages, amongst which Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are prominent. Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists, and psycholinguists will find this book of interest.

Book The Phonology of German

Download or read book The Phonology of German written by Richard Wiese and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the most complete and up-to-date description of the phonology of German presently available, this book applies recent models of phonological theory, putting particular emphasis on the interaction of morphology and phonology. It focuses on the present-day standard language, but includes discussions of other variants and registers.

Book Grammar in Progress

Download or read book Grammar in Progress written by Joan Mascaró and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Book Towards a Transformation of Philosophy

Download or read book Towards a Transformation of Philosophy written by Karl-Otto Apel and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1980 (English Translation) Towards a Transformation of Philosophy presents selected essays from Karl -Otto Apel's two- volume German collection that was published in 1973 under the title Transformation der Philosophie. Karl -Otto Apel's studies in philosophy and the social sciences can be said to have bridged the gap that had hitherto existed between the Anglo-Saxon traditions of analytical philosophy of language and pragmatism, and the philosophical traditions of the European continent of phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. Apel points to language as the crucial dimension in the constitution of historical meaning and therefore as the historical condition for the possibility of truth. In this context he discusses the hermeneutic dimension of Wittgenstein's philosophy and that of his followers, together with the development of pragmatism and with recent trends in Chomsky's linguistics. In arguing for the complementarity of technical and practical interests in acquiring knowledge for a critical theory of society Apel examines the preconditions for an emancipatory critique of ideology and the communication community as the predeterminate of both the social sciences and moral discourse. In all the essays, Apel sets out to counter the positivistic and scientistic restrictions placed upon a satisfactory understanding of the preconditions for the possibility and validity of human knowledge. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

Book War Criminals

Download or read book War Criminals written by Sheldon Glueck and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flight and Metamorphosis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nelly Sachs
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 0374721041
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Flight and Metamorphosis written by Nelly Sachs and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall). So far out, in the open, cushioned in sleep. In flight from the land with love's heavy luggage. A butterfly-zone of dreams like an open parasol held up against the truth. Flight and Metamorphosis marks the culmination of Nelly Sachs’s development as a poet. Sachs, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, speaks from her own condition as a refugee from Nazi Germany—her loneliness while living in a small Stockholm flat with her elderly mother; her exile, her alienation, her feelings of romantic bereavement; and her search for the divine. Forced onto a journey of endless change, Sachs created her own path forward. From these sublime poems, she emerges as a visionary, one who harnesses language’s essential power to create and transform our world. Joshua Weiner’s translations (with Linda B. Parshall) are the first in more than half a century to elucidate Sachs’s enduring poetic power and relevance.

Book The Religious Foundations of Internationalism

Download or read book The Religious Foundations of Internationalism written by Norman Bentwich and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anti Nazi Writers in Exile

Download or read book Anti Nazi Writers in Exile written by Egbert Krispyn and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the sometimes overly generous treatment of German writers forced into exile by Hitler's fascist regime, Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile applies the strict aesthetic and historical standards of literary criticism, putting aside any special pleading for their anti-Nazi political views. This critical approach leads to two important conclusions: that the emigrant writers' sacrifices and opposition to Hitler's Germany, however courageous, were ultimately futile and that the literature they produced was largely an aesthetic failure, due in part to the very nature of the exile experience. Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile includes a brief description of literary life in the Third Reich, but then concentrates on the United States as the scene of the exile's greatest activity after the outbreak of World War II. Krispyn concludes that the exiles' failure to achieve their political and artistic aims constitutes an important political case history within the larger history of Nazi Germany. Artistic and intellectual activities seem powerless to oppose terror, and the turn of the creative mind to political ends seemingly undermines the aesthetic force of creation.

Book Discourse and Democracy

Download or read book Discourse and Democracy written by Rene von Schomberg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines issues in legal and democratic theory found in the work of Jürgen Habermas.