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  • Habermas’s Public Sphere

    A Critique

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    Habermas’s Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas’s social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller, which has been translated into 30 languages. Integrating “public sphere,” “discourse,” and “reason,” ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Pigeons on the Grass

    by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann ...
    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael HofmannPigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Agnes

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback.“Write a story about me,” Agnes said to her lover, “so I know what you think of me.” So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment they met.At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Where Have You Been?

    Selected Essays

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticismMichael Hofmann—poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond—has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of Where Have You Been?, he offers a hand to guide us and an encouraging whisper in our ear, leading us on a trip through what to read, how to think, and why to like. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Notes from Führer HQ

    by Felix Hartlaub ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Fascinating, eerily poetic dispatches from inside Hitler’s war machine, translated into English for the first time, from a mysterious and tragic figure in German literature.Felix Hartlaub is one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century German literature. As a young writer of blazing promise, he went missing in the final days of the Second World War, leaving behind diaries, notes, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Russia and its Changing Perceptions of the EU

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 69 (upper second), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: In May 2004, seven formerly Soviet satellite countries joined the European Union (EU). In 2007, the enlargement process of the EU proceeded with another two former Soviet satellites, Romania and Bulgaria becoming new members. Furthermore, the ... Read more

    $16.85 USD

  • Concerning Alexander Wendt's constructivism, identity and change

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 71 (UK system), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: This paper argues that Wendt’s approach, by taking states’ domestic identities as given, is not able to explain changes in structure adequately. Particularly, Wendt’s assumption does not provide sufficient insights into processes ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Messing About in Boats

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French, Italian, and English, by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie. All four poems are on the subject of boats: 'Emigrant ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Achievements and Obstacles in Lithuania's Combat against Corruption

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 10 (out of 10), Vilnius University, course: Politics and Governments in Lithuania, language: English, abstract: The main objective of this paper is to examine the progress of Lithuania´s combat against corruption. Therefore it is first necessary to analyse the current situation concering the corruption issue in ... Read more

    $14.75 USD

  • Cow

    by Beat Sterchi ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Berlin Alexanderplatz

    by Alfred Doblin, Michael Hofmann ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.As Döblin writes:The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook