"The volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice expands towards transnational and global dimensions, it is necessary to consider the distinct manifestations of ecologica…
In Down from Olympus Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist normative aesthetic…
by Kim, Alan
fromBrill's companions to philosophy
For six centuries, Plato has held German philosophy in his grip. Brill's Companion to German Platonism examines how German thinkers have interpreted Plato and how in turn he has decisively influenced their thought. Under the editorship of Alan Kim, this companion gathers the wor…
'German Colonialism' offers compelling evidence of a German society between 1884 and 1919 that produced vibrant and heterogeneous - and at times contradictory - cultures of colonialism.
Investigating visual communication and mass culture, print culture and suggestive racial politics, racial aesthetics, racial politics and early German film, racial continuity and German film, and photography, this title offers an evidence of a German society between 1884 and 191…
This classic book examines the role of leading scholars- philosophers, historians, and scientists- in Hitler's rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews.
