The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe
6 best books like The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Timothy Garton Ash): At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, The German Lesson, Lost Chicago, Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, Chicago: A Biography
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
| Author | Sarah Bakewell |
| ISBN | 0701186585 |
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make...
| Author | Siegfried Lenz |
| ISBN | 0811209822 |
Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty." Overfamiliar with these “joys,” Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station...
| Author | David Garrard Lowe |
| ISBN | 0823028712 |
30th Anniversary
These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of “progress.”
Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters,...
| Author | Stephen A. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0465014054 |
Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and...
Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 1590178947 |
In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner...
| Author | Dominic A. Pacyga |
| ISBN | 0226644316 |
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us,...
