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Heidegger's Children
Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
2024 || Paperback || Richard Wolin || Princeton University Press
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal
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Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
2024 || Paperback || Mary Beard || Princeton University Press
Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
2018 || Paperback || Eric D. Weitz || Princeton University Press
The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the YearThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely ...
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
2018 || Paperback || Walter Scheidel || Princeton University Press
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
2017 || Paperback || Ian Morris || Princeton University Press
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in
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Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
2024 || Hardcover || Mary Beard || Princeton University Press