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  1. Mean Girl :
    Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed /
    Author: Duggan, Lisa,
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    ";Astute.";-New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has... more

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    ";Astute.";-New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girlfollows Rand's trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand's philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-96779-8
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    Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ; ; 8
    Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
    Other subjects: Rand, Ayn; Rand, Ayn; 20th century.; 21st century.; american politics.; ayn rand.; cold war.; conservative politics.; contemporary philosophy.; cults.; donald trump.; famous novelist.; famous writer.; greed.; intellectual.; libertarian.; life and death.; life story.; modern philosopher.; modern philosophy.; neoliberal.; paul ryan.; philosopher.; philosophical.; philosophy.; political right.; politics.; public figure.; right wing politics.; russian revolution.
    Scope: 1 online resource (115 pages).
  2. Thoreau and the Language of Trees /
    Author: Higgins, Richard,
    Published: [2017]; ©2017
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote... more

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    Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language. In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau's deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau's being-heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau's writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author's photographs. Thoreau's words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to "to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light." Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Richardson, Robert D., (writer of foreword.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-96731-3
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    RVK Categories: HT 6715
    Subjects: Trees in literature.
    Other subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862); Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862); anthology.; connection to trees.; english naturalist.; essay collection.; essential ecosystem.; hiker.; hiking.; lively essay.; natural science appreciation.; natural science.; nature appreciation.; nature.; philosopher.; philosophy.; portrait of a tree.
    Scope: 1 online resource (245 pages) :, illustrations, photographs
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    Previously issued in print: 2017.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Richardson, Robert D. --: Array
  3. The curious humanist :
    Siegfried Kracauer in America /
    Author: von Moltke, Johannes,
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded... more

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    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. Johannes von Moltke details the intricate ways in which the American intellectual and political context shaped Kracauer's seminal contributions to film studies and shows how, in turn, Kracauer's American writings helped shape the emergent discipline. Using archival sources and detailed readings, von Moltke asks what it means to consider Kracauer as the New York Intellectual he became in the last quarter century of his life. Adopting a transatlantic perspective on Kracauer's work, von Moltke demonstrates how he pursued questions in conversation with contemporary critics from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt, from Clement Greenberg to Robert Warshow: questions about the origins of totalitarianism and the authoritarian personality; about high and low culture; about liberalism, democracy, and what it means to be human. From these wide-flung debates, Kracauer's own voice emerges as that of an incisive cultural critic invested in a humanist understanding of the cinema.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-96485-3
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    Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Film critics
    Other subjects: Kracauer, Siegfried, (1889-1966); 1940s.; 20th century.; academic.; american history.; authoritarian.; caligari.; clement greenberg.; contemporary philosopher.; contemporary thinker.; culture.; film making.; film studies.; film theory.; great thinkers.; hannah arendt.; hitler.; immigrant.; immigration.; intellectual.; manhattan.; modern thinker.; modern world.; modernity.; new york.; philosopher.; philosophy.; refugee.; research.; robert warshow.; siegfried kracauer.; theodor adorno.; theorist.; theory of film.; theory.; totalitarianism.; transatlantic.; united states.; weimar republic.; world history.
    Scope: 1 online resource (333 p.)
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    Description based upon print version of record.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Nazi cinema -- Freedom from fear? -- From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema -- Authoritarian, totalitarian -- Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema -- Theory of film and the subject of experience -- The curious humanist -- History and humanist subjectivity -- Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.
  4. Henry Thoreau :
    A Life of the Mind /
    Author: Richardson, Robert D.,
    Published: [2015]; ©2015
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a... more

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    The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-90885-6
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    Subjects: Authors, American; Intellectuals; Naturalists
    Other subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862.); 19th century.; american author.; american history.; biographical.; biography.; civil disobedience.; concord jail.; cultural context.; environmentalist.; famous author.; historical context.; isolation.; life story.; literary analysis.; literary criticism.; literary history.; literature.; living alone.; manuscript.; philosopher.; philosophy.; social distancing.; walden pond.
    Scope: 1 online resource (455 pages) :, illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.