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    The Subversive Simone Weil

    Robert Zaretsky

    Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical…

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    From Homesteader to Art Collector

    Robert Zaretsky

    A remarkable man who "led an extraordinary life." Leaving an equally impressive legacy as both an art collector and philanthropist, Jacob Greenberg's life, spanning most of the twentieth century, illuminates…

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    Nimes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944

    Robert Zaretsky

    This work is a local study of wartime France under the Vichy regime that considers resistance and collaboration within the context of everyday life. Concentrating on the city of Nimes…

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    Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue

    Robert Zaretsky

    In the French Camargue - the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern nation of Occitania - the bull is a powerful icon of…

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    Boswell’s Enlightenment

    Robert Zaretsky

    Throughout his life James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of…

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    Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

    Robert Zaretsky

    In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites…

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    The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

    Robert Zaretsky

    Distinguished literary biographer Robert Zaretsky upends our thinking on Simone Weil, bringing us a woman and a philosopher who is complicated and challenging, while remaining incredibly relevant.

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    Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

    Robert Zaretsky

    A timely and nuanced book that sets the author’s experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.

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    A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

    Robert Zaretsky

    Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus–absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation–Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and…

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    Albert Camus: Elements of a Life

    Robert Zaretsky

    Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of)…

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    Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria

    Tzvetan Todorov

    This is a collection of testimonies from inmates, guards, commandants and bureaucrats whose lives were connected with one of the most brutal concentration camps in Communist Eastern Europe - the…

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    Albert Camus: Elements of a Life

    Robert D. Zaretsky

    Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of)…

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    The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding

    Robert Zaretsky,John T. Scott

    The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the…

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    Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau

    Tzvetan Todorov

    Tzvetan Todorov’s interpretation of Rousseau is one suffused with Todorov’s own moral seriousness and intellectual depth. While ranging widely through Rousseau’s corpus with skill and scholarly authority, Todorov returns, again…

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    Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau

    Tzvetan Todorov

    Rousseau is often said to have discovered and invented our modernity , and the author’s interpretation centres on the question of what sort of life we can live in modern…

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    France and Its Empire Since 1870

    Alice L. Conklin (Ohio State University),Sarah Fishman (University of Houston),Robert Zaretsky (University of Houston)

    Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation-one that has been shrouded in myths, many of its own making-France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks both to…

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    France at War: Vichy and the Historians

    This volume about the Vichy years and the German occupation of 1940-44 uses Robert Paxton’s Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order as its starting point. The contributors consider communities…

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    Major Problems in American History Since 1945

    Natasha Zaretsky (Southern Illinois University),Robert Griffith (American University),Paula Baker (Ohio State University),Mark Lawrence (University of Texas at Austin)

    Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this book introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. It serves as the primary anthology…

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