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Existential America by George Cotkin
Booksplease Price: $39.80Europe's leading existential thinkers-Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus-all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility,... -
Existential America by George Cotkin 9780801870378
Booksplease Price: $65.67Europe's leading existential thinkers-Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus-all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility,... -
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin 9780199855735
RRP: $199.95Booksplease Price: $162.24Moby-Dick looms large - gargantuan in size, themes, symbols, and influence. Its deep dives, comedic interludes, adventurous journey, and surface effects demand a new approach. Instead of a... -
Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility by George Cotkin 9780190218478
RRP: $48.36Booksplease Price: $46.30Written in a lively and accessible style, Feast of Excess traces in brief chapters the history of the New Sensibility in America. The book opens with John Cage in 1952, experimenting with an excess... -
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin 9780199855759
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $23.45Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the... -
Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America by George Cotkin 9780812222494
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of... -
Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900 by George Cotkin 9780742531475
Booksplease Price: $66.69In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed... -
The Arrow that Flies by Day: Existential Images of the Human Condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt by Bernard Murchland 9780761840428
Booksplease Price: $98.70This study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with... -
The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past by John Patrick Diggins 9780691608617
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $59.40For more than half a century, the celebrated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has been the guiding force of American liberalism, both intellectually and in practice. The author of many critically... -
The Arrow that Flies by Day: Existential Images of the Human Condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt by Bernard Murchland 9780761840312
Booksplease Price: $52.62This study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with... -
A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein 9780252079405
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prospects of a progressive America. A Contest of Ideas... -
An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World by Zeese Papanikolas 9780804791991
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural... -
Acts of Resistance: A Novel by Dominic Carrillo 9781595801340
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.06Between 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic... -
At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Casey Nelson Blake 9781442226753
Booksplease Price: $133.40As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s, we are accustomed to think, American life passed from a time of placidity to one of turbulence, from complacency to dissent, from consensus to conflict, and from... -
Acts of Resistance: A Novel by Dominic Carrillo
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Between 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic...