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 Free Download Nils Roemer, "German Jewry: Between Hope and Despair " English | ISBN: 1934843873 | 2013 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB German Jewry between Hope and Despair,1871-1933, provides important interpretations of this tumultuous and conflict-ridden period and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewish identities and cultures. Marked at the outset by emancipation and the emergence of modern anti-Semitism, the period witnessed a profound transformation of Jewish social, political, and religious life culminating in the renaissance of Jewish cultures on the eve of the Holocaust. This textbook unites studies that inform our understanding of this historical epoch to this day as well as important historical revisions. Amongst the many contributions are texts by Michael Brenner, Willi Goetschel, Marion Kaplan, George L. Mosse, Peter Pulzer, and Till van Rahden.  Free Download Shudong Chen, "Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land" English | ISBN: 1666907626 | 2022 | 346 pages | EPUB, PDF | 552 KB + 4 MB Based closely in spirit upon the most recent development in prosodic studies, Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land attempts another round of "philosophical investigation". The book demonstrates how The Waste Land could be read afresh in terms of the hidden verbal transformation that reveals the overlooked performative and collaborative nature of language. This verbal transformation makes The Waste Land flow naturally as truly "rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty" the way Poe defines poetry, especially through what Eliot calls "auditory imagination" or what Herder calls "intermediary sensation" that makes the poetry "the first language" of humanity or "the dictionary of the soul." The verbal transformation also serendipitously makes sounds of despair the sounds of hope.  Free Download Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History) by Marion A. Kaplan English | April 23, 1998 | ISBN: 0195115317, 0195130928 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 2.6 MB Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.  Free Download Richard K Fenn, "The American Culture of Despair: The Sacred, Secularity, and the Test of Time" English | ISBN: 1527503097 | 2017 | 181 pages | PDF | 630 KB Recent developments have made many social scientists and commentators wonder whether the United States is still a relatively modern, secular, and democratic society. Instead, America shows signs of the cultural despair that preceded the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany.  Death by Despair: Shame and Suicide By Ramón Martínez de Pisón 2006 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0820463825 | PDF | 21 MB  E. M. Cioran, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, "On the Heights of Despair" English | 1996 | ISBN: 0226106705 | 150 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB Born of a terrible insomnia-"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"-this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights."  Paschal M. Corby, "The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement" English | ISBN: 1532653956 | 2019 | 342 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the "Oxford School" and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Set in the key of hope and despair, it considers whether or not the transhumanist interpretation of human limitations is correct, and whether their confidence in the methods of human enhancement, especially through biotechnology, corresponds to genuine hope. To this end, it investigates the philosophical foundations of transhumanism in modernity's rejection of metaphysics, the triumph of positivism, and the universalism of the theory of evolution, which when applied to anthropology becomes the materialist reduction of the human person. Ratzinger calls into question this absolutization of positive reason and its limitation of hope to what human beings can produce, naming it a pathology of reason, a mutilation of human dignity, and a facade of a world without hope. In its place, he offers a richer concept of hope that acknowledges our contingence and limitations.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780813187396 | 309 pages | PDF | 7.67 MB Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells the story of these embattled farmers and casts a provocative new light on the issues that fueled the Tobacco Wars. |
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