This book is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932 and his death in 1959. This book... Læs mere
This is a work by the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the original French.
Brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. Taken together, the studies in this volume provide a systematic introduction to the major themes of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.
Kierkegaard's psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich--Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine--and has... Læs mere
Examines key moments in the development of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature while roughly following the historical sequence of his major works. This book... Læs mere
This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core... Læs mere
In Another Life, a woman suddenly widowed attempts to grasp the memory of her brilliant, erratic husband, and to understand their life together. The House on... Læs mere
Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation.
After the defeat of Germany in World War II, 140,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were transported to camps maintained by the Allies for displaced persons (DPs). In this study, two historians offer an administrative, social and cultural history of the DP camps.
An existentialist anti-novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde. It demonstrates a commitment to surrealistic aesthetics, and has a clear lack of an obvious plot, minimal... Læs mere
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland. The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his emigre period.