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Martin Jay
A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between "conventional" and "magical" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography.
In this magisterial new book, intellectual historian…
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Jay Martin
Set in an alternate future amid a Second Civil War, wounded infantryman Nick Carson flees the battlefield and escapes across the wasteland of war-torn America.
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Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual…
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The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the heroism of…
Gillian Rose
Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time
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Eric M Esquivel
"Orbit: RAP Icons" dives into the lives and legacies of four of hip-hop's most influential figures: Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Eminem. This graphic novel biography explores their…
Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the…
Sixteen pastors and ministry leaders-women and men, folks from the Gen-Z, Millennial, Gen-X, and Baby Boomer generations, Black, White, Asian-American, and Latino, repres
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and…
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual…
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Fin de Siecle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist…
The result is a lively, diverse offering from an extraordinary intellect. –Richard Wolin, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals…
Examines what has been said in support of, and opposition to, political lying from Plato and St Augustine to Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. This title shows that each philosopher’s…
Offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.
A treatise which discusses the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, considering its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in modern culture. The author provides…
A history of the Frankfurt School and its impact during its early years in Germany and the United States. This edition includes a new preface which reflects on the continuing…
Presents the history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience. This book explores Western discourse since the sixteenth century onwards, asking why the concept of experience has been…
Charts the flight of some of this century’s most important thinkers from Nazi Germany to the United States. Jay explores the theories of The Frankfurt School – among them, the…
Fin de Siecle Socialism, originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Professor Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist…
The Frankfurt School's own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still…
Martin E. Jay
Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century
Aging represents a growing challenge for modern human populations. People are living longer, but diseases associated with aging place an enormous burden on health systems, carers and wider society. It…
Jay Martin (Jay Martin)
This book recounts the author’s travels and his meetings with monks, remarkable masters, and dozens of other memorable Chinese people – the funny, the wise, the unscrupulous, the kind and…
A selection of Martin Jay’s recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter - and about why ideas matter.
Martin Jay Medhurst
Examines Eisenhower’s skills as a communicator, showing how he used language to achieve carefully conceived strategic purposes in the Cold War. If he seemed befuddled, he actually knew exactly what…
Martin Jay Weiss
Debut novelHeavy mystery bookstore outreachPromotions to author’s Hollywood networkSouthern California, Chicago, and New York eventsAuthor is a yearly attendee of Thrillerfest, and will be on a panel next year
Martin Weiss is involved with Thrillerfest, we’re doing advertising in their enewsletter and their official program for Thrillerfest, which is happening this monthAuthor will be participating at Bouchercon in St…
This collection of essays brings together both historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. The new articles trace its bearing on feminism, race, gender, film and art.
Combining visual culture and postcolonial studies, this reader shows that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding how colonialism worked and how colonized subjects spoke…
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Jay, a curious bluejay, is pleasantly surprised to meet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1968, at the historical March on Washington.
Ashley Cameron,Carly S Martin
Anyone who has read Gone Girl will love this crime novel. A young woman is beaten to death in the city park. Mia, a veterinarian, lives nearby. One day, her…
When Jay’s husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the opportunity to escape her predictable life in Canberra for a three-year adventure in the heart of central…
As a promising new lawyer, Jay Martin would have seem like a guy out of place in the projects of Little Rock, Arkansas, shooting hoops, befriending fatherless kids, and introducing…
Robert Lowell - American Writers 92 was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
During John Dewey’s lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten important thinkers in American history. This book recaptures…
Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist…
"In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor. Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him…
Helmut Dubiel
This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research yields fascinating insights into the actual workings…
Terry Conrow Toczynski,Martin Jay Levitt
Martin Jay Levitt was a union buster who planned and executed customized anti-union campaigns at more then 250 businesses across America, from coal mines and factories to airlines and nursing…
Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg
A comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history and politics. It explores Germany’s relationship to democracy, ideologies of ‘reactionary modernism’, the rise of the ‘New Woman’, Bauhaus architecture, the tradition of…
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