"Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet." So beginnt der unvollendete,... postum veröffentlichte Roman von Franz Kafka. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des Bankprokuristen Josef K., dem an seinem 30. Geburtstag von einer mysteriösen Behörde der Prozess gemacht werden soll. Vergeblich versucht er in der Folge herauszufinden, weshalb er angeklagt wurde und wie er sich rechtfertigen könnte. Doch je mehr er seine Unschuld verteidigen will, desto tiefer gerät er in das grauenhafte Labyrinth einer surrealen Bürokratie mit undurchschaubaren Gesetzen, deren Sinn die „Sinnlosigkeit“ ist. Von einer anonymen, für ihn unerreichbaren Gerichtsinstanz wird er schließlich in einem Prozess, von dem nicht nur die Öffentlichkeit, sondern auch er selbst ausgeschlossen bleibt, zum Tod verurteilt.Nie erfährt er, worin seine „Schuld“ besteht. Dennoch fügt er sich diesem Urteil. An seinem 31. Geburtstag wird er von zwei höflichen Schergen abgeholt, die ihn "wie ein(en) Hund" in einem Steinbruch erstechen. Ergänzt wird der Originaltext mit Worterklärungen und biografischen Notizen über den Autor.Die Print ISBN bezieht sich auf unser Hörbuch.

An English translation of this title would be The Judge and his Hangman. It is a detective story. This novella is in German with an introduction in... English and a glossary of German terms with English translations in the back. Edited by William Gillis and John J. Neumaier

A fast-paced mystery for beginning German students featuring private detective Helmut Müller. An assignment brings Müller to Munich, where a chance... meeting with his former girlfriend Maria involves him in dangerous dealings. Who knew she had become a diamond thief of quite some repute? Level one difficulty.

Paperback: 181 pages
Publisher: Diogenes (December 31, 1985)
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3257225350
ISBN-13: 978-3257225358
Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x... 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces

Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives.... Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great. Turning to the deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for luck that runs through our entire history from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, Lears traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped and, at times, defined our national character.

Derrida is one of those annoying geniuses you can take a class on, read half-a-dozen books by and still have no idea what he’s talking about. ... Derrida’s ‘writing’ is definitely confusing (it’s like he’s pulling the rug out from under the rug that he pulled out from under philosophy). But beneath the confusion, like the heartbeat of a bird in your hand, you can feel Derrida’s electric genius. It draws you to it; you want to understand it…but it’s so confusing. Jim Powell’s Derrida For Beginners is the clearest explanation of Derrida and deconstruction presently available in our solar system. Powell guides us through blindingly obscure texts like Grammatology (Derrida’s deconstruction of Saussure, Lévi Strauss, Roussseau), “Différance” (his essay on language and life), Dissemination (his dismantling of Plato, his rap on Mallarmé), along with his other masterpieces.

In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era.... Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a new cinematic mode: atemporal cinema.  In atemporal cinema, formal distortions of time introduce spectators to an alternative way of experiencing existence in time—or, more exactly, a way of experiencing existence out of time. McGowan draws on contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly Jacques Lacan, to argue that atemporal cinema unfolds according to the logic of the psychoanalytic notion of the drive rather than that of desire, which has conventionally been the guiding concept of psychoanalytic film studies.  Despite their thematic diversity, these films distort chronological time with a shared motivation: to reveal the logic of repetition. Like psychoanalysis, McGowan contends, the atemporal mode locates enjoyment in the embrace of repetition rather than in the search for the new and different.

Great operatic masterpiece reprinted complete and unabridged from rare, limited and numbered full-score edition (for solo voice, chorus and orchestra),... approved by Strauss. Published by AdolphFürstner, Paris and Berlin, 1910. First inexpensive, high-quality edition.

In 1828 James, a slave, arrives in Texas, brought by his owner, Samuel Bingham. Texas is then a part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. James... comes to Texas because he has no choice. But once there, he finds a postrevolutionary country where slavery is on the way out and his freedom is a real possibility. His owner, though, is determined to take advantage of the low cost of land in Texas to build up a farm into a cotton plantation with the use of slave labor. Over the next nine years James will experience and participate in a series of wrenching events that marked the origins of the Lone Star State. Set in the years surrounding the 1836 Texas War of Independence, ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is a solidly researched examination of the clashing aspirations of slaves, slave owners, Indians, and Mexicans during a turning point of the westward expansion of the United States. While there are a number of novels set in this period of Texas history, ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is the only novel that has a slave as a key protagonist and incorporates prominently that point of view of the turbulent events. Its provocative underlying thesis is that the extension of slavery was the true underlying cause of the Texas War of Independence, not yearnings for freedom by the Texas frontiersmen, as American folklore has traditionally had it. ESCAPE FROM TEXAS is to the understanding of the Texas War of Independence as Howard Fast's Freedom Road was to the understanding of the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction.