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  • Lectures on the Essence of Religion
    Ludwig Feuerbach / Ralph Manheim
    This book, translated for the first time into English, presents the major statement of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach. Here, in his most systematic work, Feuerbach’s thought on religion and on the philosophy of nature achieves its full maturity.Central to the thought of Feuerbach is the concept that man not God is the creator, that divinities are representations of man’s in...
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    38,84 €

  • The History of the Maghrib
    Abdallah Laroui / Ralph Manheim
    This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship. The book aims, in Professor Laroui’s words, 'to give from within a decolonized vision of North African history just as the present leaders of the Maghrib are trying to modernize the economic and...
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    244,21 €

  • Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi
    Henry Corbin / Ralph Manheim
    A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while pre...
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    229,09 €

  • The History of the Maghrib
    Abdallah Laroui / Ralph Manheim
    This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship. The book aims, in Professor Laroui’s words, 'to give from within a decolonized vision of North African history just as the present leaders of the Maghrib are trying to modernize the economic and...
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    97,55 €

  • Way to Wisdom
    Karl Jaspers / Ralph Manheim
    2015 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers’ view, the source of phi...
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    15,38 €

  • Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi
    Henry Corbin / Ralph Manheim
    A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while pre...
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    78,28 €

  • Dog Years
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
    Dog Years is set in three parts. Herr Brauxel, the owner of a mine, tells the 'Morning Shifts, ' an account of the early years of the two main figures, the half-Jew, Eduard Amsel, and his friend and blood brother, Waltern Matern. The river Vistula, with its cargo of history, runs through their exploits. So does the dog Senta, who will whelp Harras, who in turn will sire the bla...
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    33,61 €

  • Prometheus
    Carl Kerényi / Ralph Manheim
    Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus’s release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaki...
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    57,35 €

  • The Four Wise Men
    Michel Tournier / Ralph Manheim
    Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, 'the eternal latecomer'’ whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has...
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    32,93 €

  • Dionysos
    Carl Kerényi / Ralph Manheim
    No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl K...
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    77,80 €

  • The Call of the Toad
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
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    13,70 €

  • Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
    Erich Auerbach / Ralph Manheim
    In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, 'My purpose is always to write history.' Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate...
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    71,51 €

  • Myth, Religion, and Mother Right
    Johann Jakob Bachofen / Ralph Manheim
    The Swiss thinker J. J. Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or 'mother right,' but that concept is only a small part of his contribution to our understanding of cultural history. This book includes an autobiographical essay and selections from An Essay on Ancient Mortuary Symbolism, Mother Right, and The Myth of Tanaquil. ? ...
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    71,81 €

  • Eleusis
    Carl Kerényi / Ralph Manheim
    The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to 'see visions,' C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerenyi holds that the yearly autumnal 'mys...
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    56,92 €

  • Headbirths
    Grass / Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
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    12,32 €

  • The Meeting at Telgte
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
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    11,36 €

  • Local Anaesthetic
    Grass / Ralph Manheim
    Starusch, a bachelor aged forty teaching 'German and history' (two inseparable subjects), undergoes protracted treatment by a dentist who uses TV to distract his patients. Gagged in his chair, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. Reality and fantasy, the actual and the repressed, overrun the screen in a mi...
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    14,53 €

  • The Flounder
    Grass / Ralph Manheim
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    22,66 €

  • Spinoza
    Karl Jaspers / Ralph Manheim
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    14,25 €

  • From the Diary of a Snail
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
    Gunter Grass, Germany’s most famous literary figure, is also known in his country as a political speaker. In 1969 Grass gave close to one hundred election speeches for Willy Brandt’s party, the Social Democrats. His family saw him only intermittently. In his snail’s diary, he purports to explain, imaginatively as well as factually, why he felt impelled to devote himself to poli...
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    14,42 €

  • Max
    Gunter Grass / A. Leslie Willson / Ralph Manheim
    Gunter Grass’s latest play confronts two generations: the young activists, pressing for change through violent protest, and the middle-aged believers in gradual reform through the democratic process. On the one side there is Philipp Scherbaum, a young student, spurred on by his Maoist girl friend Vero; and on the other, Eberhard Starusch, bachelor and teacher of German and hist...
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    12,45 €

  • The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1
    Erich Neumann / Ralph Manheim
    Four essays on the psychological aspects of art. A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist’s inner situation. Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time. An essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the proble...
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    65,41 €

  • Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung
    Jolande Jacobi / Ralph Manheim
    As an associate of C. G. Jung for many years, Jolande Jacobi is in a unique position to provide an interpretation of his work. In this volume, Dr. Jacobi presents a study of three central, interrelated concepts in analytical psychology: the individual complex, the universal archetype, and the dynamic symbol. ...
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    50,88 €

  • Amor and Psyche
    Erich Neumann / Ralph Manheim
    The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius’s second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, he shows how the contest between the mortal maid Psyche and the great g...
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    43,52 €

  • Speak Out!
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
    Gunter Grass extends his political commitment beyond his literary work. Using his fame in what he considers the best interests of his nation, he speaks out on all current issues, and fights, in a country without deeply rooted democratic traditions, for the processes of parliamentary democracy. He sees German democracy threatened by postwar developments in a divided Germany and ...
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    12,29 €

  • The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising
    Gunter Grass / Ralph Manheim
    In his first full-length play, Gunter Grass takes Bertolt Brecht, the foremost modern German dramatist, as his key figure. On June 17, 1953, the workers in East Germany rise in rebellion against oppressive measures, but their revolt lacks a voice and a leader. In the East German theater of which he is the director, the famed Communist poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht (named ...
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    12,26 €

  • Kant
    Jaspers / Karl Jaspers / Ralph Manheim
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    14,07 €

  • Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus
    Karl Jaspers / Ralph Manheim
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    14,33 €

  • Mein Kampf
    Adolf Hitler / Mein Kampf English Translation / Ralph Manheim
    This translation is considered as the most accurate English translation/edition of the original Mein Kampf (German) by Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler started dictating Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess when he was imprisoned in Festungshaft against the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt of coup. Initially Hitler was naming his book "Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und ...
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    21,21 €

  • My Struggle
    Adolf Hitler / Ralph Manheim
    In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall pu...
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    18,56 €