Recent Arrivals from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Collection Débats. Author-signed first edition. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.75", and shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 228 pages. Inscription on half title page reads "Pour Phil Lewis / ce (illegible word) ou se (illegible word) / monnaie et langage / avec toutes mes amitiés / Jean Joseph Goux." ""Is it a… Read more about this item

Urbane Welten - Texte zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Stadtforschung. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 9", is in fine condition. 425 pages. "Cinematic spaces unfold beyond known spatial coordinates. They open up a border area in which pictorial spatial fixations and a moving, transforming spatial thinking intersect. This book reframes the spatiality of film through the concept of cinematic topology. The theoretical foundation… Read more about this item

Large-format oblong volume, measuring approximately , is bound in glossy covers. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. 224 pages. Cultural and gastronomic tour of the island's best local eateries. The prologue is written by reknowned chef Wilo Benet. Includes recipes of some of the favorite local dishes. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 457 pages. "Against the claim to universality of text, writing and discourse, Mersch identifies something unreadable in the symbolic. This illegibility concerns, on the one hand, the materiality of the signs themselves, the necessity of their sensual embodiment; on the other hand,… Read more about this item

Studien zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Band 11. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binidng is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 250 pages. "The multidisciplinary anthology deals with the question of the significance of the postmodern paradigm for contemporary culture. How do postmodern texts, images and productions develop in the context of artistic processes such as intertextuality, translation… Read more about this item

Letter & Zin (Series), 1. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. 242 pages. Contents: "Lesen im technokratischen Zeitalter" by Ludo Verbeeck; ""Was nie geschrieben wurde, lesen": Zur Aufgabe des Lesers" by Irving Wohlfarth; "Traumlektüre : Benjamins politische Baudelaire-Lektüre" by Rainer Nägele; "Theory and Theatre" by Samuel Weber; ""Kannitverstan": Uber das nötige Missverstehen von Literature Marginalie zu Canettis "Die gerettete Zunge"" by Peter Henninger; "The… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 224 pages. "Friendship in times of upheaval: A look at Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondence from different perspectives Rahel Levin Varnhagen, one of the great writers and famous salonière of the 19th century, dealt with the changes of her time in numerous correspondence… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.25" x 8", is new. 124 pages. "The life of the German-American Charlotte Charlaque (1892–1963) leads across the Atlantic several times - from Moravian Schönberg via Berlin, San Francisco and Prague to New York. As a Jew, Charlaque left Nazi Germany in 1934. Eight years later she made the life-saving "jump" to the USA. In… Read more about this item

Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows very light shelfwear, with faint vertical crease to rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 298 pages. Contents: "Wissenschaften des Arbiträren: Die Revolutionierung des Sinnesphysiologie und die Entstehung der modernen Hermeneutik um 1800" by Albrecht Koschorke; "Das trübe Wasser der reinen Vernunft: Kantische Signaltechnik" by Bernhard Siegert; "Töne-Hören" by… Read more about this item

Collection "A la pensée." Third edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7", shows shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 195 pages. "Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Vii. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In "Proust et les signes,"… Read more about this item

Third edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in reddish orange cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book and dust jacket are new. 570 pages "Diese Biographie Werner Sombarts stellt Leben und Werk des einflußreichsten deutschen Sozialwissenschaftlers zwischen Kaiserreich und nationalsozialistischer Diktatur dar. Sie verbindet die wissenschaftliche und politische Entwicklung Sombarts mit der Betrachtung seiner sich wandelnden Lebensbedingungen. Auf… Read more about this item

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in burnt orange paper spine and boards, with gilt-lettered brown spine labels. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 333 pages. "What role does literature play in geopolitics? How do literary spatial fantasies relate to political visions and ideologies with tangible consequences? At least since Heinrich… Read more about this item

Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with white lettering to spine. Book shows mild shelfwear, with scattered light foxing and minor stains to edges of text block. Binding is firm. Gift inscription appears on front flyleaf. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. 253 pages. "Was Konrad Lorenz, one of… Read more about this item

Author-signed first edition. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in red cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 380 pages. Signed "Munchen, Januar 2006 / W. Antesberger" on blank page opposite title page. ""In their time they were famous and in some cases more successful than their contemporary Mozart.… Read more about this item

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8.25", is bound in red cloth, with black-lettered green spine label. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. 356 pages. This work by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) identifies rage as a key political and psychological factor that has had a major impact on the development of the West from… Read more about this item

Monographien zur philosophischen Forschung, Band 126. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is bound in original printed wrappers. Book displays light shelfwear, with sunned spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xviii/508 pages. Posthumous work by German Jewish philosopher David Baumgardt (1890-1963).

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 207 pages. ""On October 1, 1962, the Netherlands transferred the western part of New Guinea to the United Nations. Seven months later, on May 1, 1963, the peoples' organization in turn transferred authority over the area to Indonesia. The Netherlands was its last colonial bastion in "The East"… Read more about this item

Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts fur Geschichte, 142. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 283 pages. "The middle of the 18th century seems to be the calm before the great storm: the peasant revolts are over,… Read more about this item

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. 287 pages. "Between April 1921 and August 1924, Aby Warburg, the brilliant art historian and cultural scientist, was an inmate in the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, where he had been admitted after a severe psychotic breakdown - he had threatened to kill himself… Read more about this item

Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut fur Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Band 57. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 465 pages. "Die Entwicklung moderner Gesellschaften wird durch die Dynamik des Zusammenwirkens von Märkten und marktkorrigierenden Institutionen, von Wirtschaft und Politik bestimmt. Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg, soziale Ordnung, politische Stabilität hängen wesentlich von ihrem Zusammenspiel ab.… Read more about this item