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The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party l…
When Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during the 1988 presidential campaign, he asserted in a particularly American tenor the near-ancient idea that lying and politics (and perhaps advertising, too) are inseparable, or at le…
Seit dem Erscheinen der Schwarzen Hefte tobt eine neue internationale Debatte um Heideggers Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus. Reinhard Mehring verweist diese Debatte in wirkungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive und im Interesse der heutigen philosophischen Kultur auf den Aspekt …
"This book persuasively analyzes the relations between the eighteenth-century press and public speech."--book jacket.
"Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This is the first detailed treatment of t…
Tyrants writing poetry
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As conventional understanding would have it, the sometimes brutal business of governing can only be carried out at the price of distance from art, while poetic beauty best flourishes at a distance from actions executed at the pole of power. Dramatically contradicting this idea i…
Florence and Cosimo -- The city -- Who were the Florentines? Etruscan roots -- Received traditions -- Gelli and Giambullari on Florentine origins -- Supporters and detractors -- Florentine histories -- Past witnesses -- Diaries and private records -- Histories of recent times --…
"The city of Florence enjoyed a lively intellectual and artistic community in the middle and later decades of the sixteenth century. The city's literary academy, the Accademia Fiorentina, sponsored weekly public lectures on Petrarch and Dante as well as a series of lectures for …
"Celebrated as an intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and …
Part I: Nazism -- Beauty of Labor: The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich (1976) -- Appendix: No Angel from Hell: The Collapse of the Speer Myth (2006) -- Organized Mass Culture in the Third Reich: The Women of Kraft durch Freude (1986) -- The Emotional Core of Fascism …