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A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvelan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. Todorov proposes definit

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The

De angst voor de barbaren dreigt ons barbaars te maken… De “botsende beschavingen” zouden zijn: de westerse democratieën aan de ene, de islam aan de a

Examines the struggle between Totalitarianism and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. This book explores the history of the twe

This is a collection of testimonies from inmates, guards, commandants and bureaucrats whose lives were connected with one of the most brutal concentra

Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding

Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should underst

This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvelan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. Todorov proposes definit

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communis

* A new book by one of the world's leading intellectuals. * Addresses the fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplified by the war o

* A new book by one of the world's leading intellectuals. * Addresses the fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplified by the war o

This book represents a research endeavour in the area of contemporary sculpture, describing an unexplored tendency in the development of the relations