Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Earth
A Tenant's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"It’s impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still less an academic exercise. It’s a survival issue. This is the only planet we have. We’re stuck...
by Hans Blumenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or...
Counterpreservation
Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin....
Berlin Coquette
Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne...
Benjamin's Library
Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the literary and...
Inconceivable Effects
Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Inconceivable Effects, Martin Blumenthal-Barby reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt,...
On the Ruins of Babel
Architectural Metaphor in German Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their...
The Topography of Modernity
Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them...
The Chain of Things
Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and...
Novel Translations
The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion,...
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection...
Necessary Luxuries
Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital...
Legal Tender
Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic...