"During the Cold War, dissent against U.S. international policy was looked upon as inherently suspicious. No one was more suspicious than outspoken left-leaning intellectuals, especially those who lived in Manhattan. For national security reasons, the federal government expended…
Between the two world wars, Germany managed - despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing - to attract extremely large numbers of British travellers and tourists. During the Weimar period in particular, Germany attracted visitors from virtually every section of Briti…
"Between the two world wars, Germany managed - despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing - to attract extremely large numbers of British travellers and tourists. During the Weimar period in particular, Germany attracted visitors from virtually every section of Brit…
Kenneth Moss offers the first comprehensive look at this fascinating moment in Jewish and Russian history. He examines what these numerous would-be cultural revolutionaries, such as El Lissitzky and Haim Nahman Bialik, meant by a new Jewish culture, and details their fierce disa…
Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a 'Jewish renaissance'. Here, Kenneth Moss offers a comprehensive look at this movement.
Berman conducts a searing examination into the intellectual atmosphere of contemporary Islam and shows how some of the West's best thinkers and journalists have fumbled badly in their effort to grapple with Islamist ideas and violence.
"The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato's philosophic opponents. Here instead intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood."--Jacket.
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.
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.
