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        November 2014

        Frankfurt ist anders

        Mein Stadtplan

        by Eva Demski, Wolfgang Schopf

        Eine Weltstadt, die aus Dörfern besteht, das ist Frankfurt. Viel gescholten als kalter Bankenplatz, sucht die Stadt andere Rollen und findet sie auch. Sie will zum Beispiel grün sein und glamourös, das eine schafft sie ganz gut, das andere nicht. Frankfurt ist für viele Menschen eine Durchgangsstation, in der sie nach Jahrzehnten plötzlich erstaunt feststellen: Ich bin ja geblieben! Eva Demski ist es genau so gegangen. Aus unzähligen Erkundungen, Wegbeschreibungen, Ortsterminen, Porträts, Pamphleten und Liebeserklärungen ist ein Frankfurt-Buch geworden, ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit, aber mit Überraschungen. Vergessene Parks und das Mainufer mit Max Beckmanns Blick, wenig Goethe, dafür seine Mutter und die Freundin Marianne von Willemer umso eingehender, selbstbewusste Hässlichkeiten und schüchterne Schönheiten, Veränderungswahn und Bewahrungsmühen – all das und mehr kennzeichnet die Stadt, von der Eva Demski einmal gesagt hat, sie liebe sie »wie einen hässlichen Hund« – was nichts anderes heißt als: ganz besonders.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        Critical theory and feeling

        The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

        by Simon Mussell

        This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School's affective politics.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2026

        Critical theory and the critique of alternative societies

        Co-operatives, mutual aid and universal basic income

        by Neal Harris

        Anti-capitalist activism has taken a wrong direction and social and political theoretical theorists have failed to realise this. The trend for building, what has become called, 'Alternative Societies', spaces such as mutual aid groups and workers' co-operatives, failed to grasp the true power of the capitalist totality. Drawing on the work of the early Frankfurt School, this book argues that such anti-capitalist strategies are deeply mistaken and must be urgently reconsidered.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Critical theory and demagogic populism

        by Paul K. Jones, Darrow Schecter

        Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to everyone concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2021

        Critical theory and demagogic populism

        by Paul K. Jones

        Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to researchers and students in critical theory, sociology, politics, German studies, philosophy and history of ideas, as well as all those concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2026

        Critical theory and the political

        by Anastasia Marinopoulou

        The book addresses what is political in critical theory and which aspects, arguments or notions of critical theory maintain political significance for the 20th and the 21st centuries. The collection of essays comprises itself of a series of clear and critical perspectives that analyze the extent to which critical theory relates political argument to modern societies and, thereby, exerts a critique of the multiple social and political phenomena of late modernity. The contributors focus on a multiplicity of universal phenomena such as globalization, multiple crises, late capitalism and the social role of the sciences, and posit some novel criticism of the contemporary social sphere, as it is situated within the wider system of global capitalism. They also present a plurivalent critique that links arguments in Marxism and Freud to all three generations of critical theory.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2025

        Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain

        Canzoniere and Triumphi, c. 1530–1650

        by Marie-Alice Belle, Riccardo Raimondo, Francesco Venturi

        Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch's vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond). Approaching translation as an interpretive process, but also a mode of literary emulation and cultural engagement with Petrarch's prestigious precedent, the collection explores the complex and interconnected trajectories of both poetic works in English and Scottish literary milieux. While situating each translation in its distinct historical, material, and literary context, the essays trace the reception of Petrarch's works in early modern Britain through the combined processes of linguistic and metric innovation, literary imitation, musical adaptation and cultural and material 'domestication'. The collection sheds light on the origins and development of early modern English Petrarchism as part of wider transnational - and indeed, translational-European literary culture.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2025

        Early modern drama and the theatre of war

        Militarism, conflict and disruption in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

        by Bronwen Price, Hilary Hinds

        This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama. Engaging with Simon Barker's seminal work on dramatic representations of war and militarism, contributors highlight what often lies hidden beneath the surface of martial narratives, treating them as formative interventions in contemporary discourses, whether in justifying war, excluding dissident voices or shaping cultural identities. Discussions include new examinations of militarism, the figure of the soldier and early modern theories of war in Shakespearean tragedy, history and comedy, alongside antimasque and dramatic satire by lesser-known playwrights. The essays investigate how ideas of war underpin emerging concepts of gender, leadership, marriage and the family, as well as the continuing mobilisation of Shakespearean drama in the context of modern armed conflict. Together, they offer rich new contributions to the current lively critical debates on this topic.

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        July 2009

        Kalter Main

        Kriminalroman

        by Rosa Ribas, Kirsten Brandt

        Hochwasser in Frankfurt, und in den Fluten des Mains treibt ein Toter – ermordet, wie sich schnell herausstellt. Hauptkommissarin Cornelia Weber übernimmt den Fall, und die Ermittlungen bringen nicht nur so manche dunkle Seiten des Mordopfers, eines seit Jahrzehnten in Frankfurt lebenden Spaniers, ans Licht, sondern lassen auch Webers eigene Vergangenheit wieder aufleben …

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2022

        The early modern English sonnet

        Ever in motion

        by Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin

        This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.

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        September 2003

        Adorno in Frankfurt

        Ein Kaleidoskop aus Texten und Bildern

        by Wolfram Schütte, Wolfram Schütte

        Frankfurt am Main war für Theodor W. Adorno der Ort, »wo die eigene Erfahrung ihr Zentrum hat«. An keinem Ort hat er länger gelebt als in seiner Geburtsstadt. Hier wollte er, als er 1949 nach fünfzehnjähriger Emigration zurückkehrte, den Versuch unternehmen, »die Kindheit verwandelnd einzuholen«.Was weltweit »Frankfurter Schule« genannt wurde, war gewiß er nicht allein; aber ohne ihn und seine von Frankfurt aus in alle kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Bereiche ausstrahlende geistige Produktivität und Präsenz hätten Ruf und Name der »Frankfurter Schule« einen anderen Klang.Adorno in Frankfurt sowie Frankfurt in Adorno: Das stiftet ein Geflecht von subtilen Beziehungen, offenbaren und subkutanen, privaten und öffentlichen. Gerade im Autobiographischen war er diskret. Dennoch hat der Ort Spuren hinterlassen – und Frankfurt in ihm.Aus einer Vielzahl der Text- und Bildzeugnisse, aus Frankfurter Anlässen und Möglichkeiten, aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen und aus Dokumenten seiner Frankfurter Geistesgegenwärtigkeit entsteht das Kaleidoskop von Berührungen und Koinzidenzen, ein Mosaik von Erinnerungen und Mutmaßungen.

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        October 2002

        Mein Frankfurt

        by Martin Mosebach, Barbara Klemm, Rainer Weiss, Rainer Weiss

        Es gehört zu meinem besonderen Verhältnis zu meiner Geburtsstadt Frankfurt am Main, daß ich sie als eine der verdorbensten und häßlichsten Städte Deutschlands erlebe und in meiner Phantasie und in meinem inneren Bild von der Stadt an sie als eine der schönsten Städte denke, die ich kenne. Ein Frankfurt der Vorstellung und das reale Frankfurt wohnen in mir dicht nebeneinander und berühren sich und überlappen sich sogar ...« Martin Mosebach hat sich nicht selten über sein Frankfurt geäußert, in Feuilletons, Reportagen, Reden, aber auch in Romanen und Erzählungen. Es ist eine Stadt, die er liebt und die ihn als Geliebte verfolgt. Dieses Buch zeigt ein Frankfurt mit vielen Gesichtern.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2020

        Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries

        by Duncan Sayer, Joshua Pollard

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2026

        Massacres in Early Modern Drama

        by Georgina Lucas

        Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2025

        Slave trading in the Early Middle Ages

        Long-distance connections in northern and east central Europe

        by Janel M. Fontaine

        This book examines slave trading in northern and eastern central Europe from the seventh century through the eleventh century, tracing its growth, climax, and decline. Demand from the Islamic world in the ninth and tenth centuries prompted changes in warfare, trade logistics, and administrative responses to slavery in the slaving zones centred on the British Isles and the Czech lands. This study establishes slave trading as a core driver of connectivity and presents a model for this practice in politically fragmented areas of Europe.

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        February 2016

        Sich selbst ernst nehmen

        by Harry G. Frankfurt

        Menschen besitzen vermutlich als einzige Spezies die Fähigkeit, sich selbst ernst zu nehmen. Was aber heißt das? Für Harry Frankfurt ist diese Fähigkeit untrennbar verbunden mit zwei anderen Aspekten der menschlichen Natur: Vernunft und Liebe. Die Vernunft gebietet über unseren Verstand, die Liebe über unser Herz. Sie liefern die Gründe für unser Tun und spielen damit eine entscheidende Rolle für unser Selbstverständnis als frei handelnde, über sich selbst reflektierende Personen. Allerdings, so Frankfurt, ist es die Liebe, die die praktische Vernunft regiert. Lieben heißt sich sorgen: etwas intensiv wünschen, wollen oder begehren. Es ist also die Logik der Sorge, die unser Denken und Handeln im Kern bestimmt.

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