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Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.
Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics.
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The Book Against Death
Elias Canetti; Translated by Peter Filkins; Preface by Joshua Cohen
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In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that
'by definition, [he] could never live to complete', as translator
Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against
Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti’s
aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death
– published in English for the first time since his death in 1994
– interposed with material from philosophers and writers
including Goethe, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. This major
work by the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate is a reckoning
with the inevitability of death and with its politicization,
evoking despair at the loss of loved ones and the impossibility of
facing one’s own death, while fiercely protesting the mass deaths
incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield
death as power. Infused with fervour and vitality, The Book
Against Death ultimately forms a moving affirmation of the
value of life itself.
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Seven Rooms
Dominic Jaeckle, Jess Chandler; Afterword by Gareth Evans; Contributions by Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave,, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raúl Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Atlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin,, …
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Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for
new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since
its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection
on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published
by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts,
and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK,
and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and
total creative freedom.
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The Oppermanns (Paperback)
Lion Feuchtwanger; Introduction by Joshua Cohen
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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate
Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner
Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He
was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor
lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But that
alone was enough to give his life dimension, both of feeling and of
thought. Here, in his own words, is one of the twentieth century's
foremost chroniclers: a dizzyingly inventive, formally unplaceable,
unstoppably peripatetic writer named Elias Canetti, who was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. I Want to Keep Smashing
Myself Until I Am Whole is a summa of Canetti's life and thought,
and the definitive introduction to a writer whose genius for
interpreting world-historical changes was matched by a keen sense
of wonder and an abiding skepticism about the knowability of the
self. Born into a Sephardi Jewish family in Bulgaria, Canetti later
lived in Austria, England, and Switzerland while traversing, in
writing, the great thematic provinces of his time: politics,
identity, mortality, and more. Sourced from Canetti's landmark
texts, including Crowds and Power, an analysis of authoritarianism
and mobs; Auto-da-Fe, a darkly comic, daringly modernist novel
about the fate of European literature; the famous sequence of
sensory-titled memoirs, including The Tongue Set Free and The Torch
in My Ear; and never-before-translated writings such as the
posthumous The Book Against Death, this collection assembles its
luminous shards into the fullest portrait yet of Canetti's
remarkable achievement. Edited and introduced by Joshua Cohen (Book
of Numbers, The Netanyahus), I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I
Am Whole leads us from Canetti's polyglot childhood to his mature
preoccupations, and his friendships and rivalries with Hermann
Broch, James Joyce, Karl Kraus, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, and
others. This collection is also interspersed with aphorisms and
diary entries, revealing Canetti's formal range and stylistic
versatility in flashes of erudition and introspective humor.
Throughout, we come to see Canetti's restless fascination with the
instability of identity as one of the keys to his thought--as he
reminds us, It all depends on this: with whom we confuse ourselves.
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945-79 explores the extent
to which the Holocaust has shaped British antifascism. The author
tests assertions of an uncomplicated relationship between Holocaust
memory and the imperative to resist postwar fascist revivals. For
those with a scholarly interest in how antifascists confront their
opponents, it is essential to understand whether the Holocaust has
always been seen as an insurmountable barrier against fascism: is
the idea of the genocide's constant antifascist 'use' actually a
dangerous assumption and, if so, what are the implications of this
for 'Antifa' as its battle with the contemporary far right unfolds?
This book provides a political and structural history of the
Holocaust's relationship to antifascist organisations and questions
whether networks of solidarity formed around Holocaust memory,
including analysing the impact of the genocide in Jewish
antifascists' motivations and rhetoric. It also assesses the
Holocaust's political capital in wider antifascism and connected
anti-racism, including in defence of the Black and Asian
communities increasingly victimised by fascists over the postwar
period. This book will appeal to scholars and students with
interests in antifascism, fascism, racism, and Jewish and left-wing
history in Britain, and how these intersect with Holocaust
consciousness.
A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the
defining feature of democratic politics The idea that democratic
governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly
little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress
the importance of representation by elected, appointed, or randomly
selected bodies such as legislatures, courts, and juries. This
would have astonished eighteenth-century theorists of democracy,
who viewed universal suffrage and majoritarian voting as the sole
criteria for democratic politics. Active and Passive Citizens
defends the view of these earlier thinkers, asserting that
individual agency is the very essence of democracy. In this
provocative and lucidly argued book, Richard Tuck draws on the
distinction made by the Abbé Sieyès, a leading political theorist
of the French Revolution, between “active” citizens, the
electorate, and “passive” citizens, those who are represented
by the institutions of the state. Tuck traces our current
representative view of democracy to Sieyès and contrasts him with
Rousseau, a theorist of active self-rule by the people. Tuck argues
that modern theories of democracy have effectively turned us into
passive citizens and calls for a renewal of a majoritarian
democracy that realizes the full potential of active citizenship.
Based on the prestigious Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton
University’s Center for Human Values, Active and Passive Citizens
is edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo and includes commentary
by political theorists Simone Chambers, Joshua Cohen, John
Ferejohn, and Melissa Schwartzberg.
In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in
which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses
on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua
Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community
all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in
Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. The
book also explains Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian
idea that we are naturally good, shows why Rousseau thinks it is
reasonable for us to endorse that idea, and discusses how our
natural goodness might make a free community of equals possible for
us. And Cohen examines in detail Rousseau's picture of the
institutions of a democratic society: why he emphasised the
importance of political participation, how he argued against
extreme inequalities, and what led him to embrace a civil religion
as necessary for the society of the general will. This book
provides an analytical and critical appraisal of Rousseau's
political thought that, while frank about its limits, also explains
its enduring power.
This volume provides a collection of recent essays that address a
wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an
institutionalized social practice. Over half of the essays present
novel interpretations of Aristotle and of Enlightenment views. In
some cases explicit comparisons are drawn between the arguments
given by former slaves and certain political theories that may have
influenced them. By considering the slave's critical appropriation
of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of
various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors
assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social
practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced
treatment. They address the question of what is wrong with slavery
by critically examining, and in some cases endorsing, certain
principles derived from communitarianism, paternalism,
utilitarianism, and jurisprudence. This volume provides a
collection of recent essays by today's most innovative social
thinkers. Anita Allen, Bernard Boxhill, Joshua Cohen, R.M. Hare,
Bill Lawson, Tommy Lott, Howard McGary, Julius Moravesik, Laurence
Thomas, William Uzgalis, Julie Ward, Bernard Williams, and Cynthia
Wilett address a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery
as an institutionalized social practice.
The Second Edition of this ground-breaking collection gives
students all the tools they need to understand and engage with
major philosophical issues. Students are presented with clear yet
thorough topic introductions, historical context, reading guides
for challenging selections and exclusive commissioned essays
written by leading contemporary philosophers specifically for
undergraduates. The Second Edition features a NEW co-author, a NEW
focus on diversity within the field and NEW readings and topics
relevant to students' lives.
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I, City (Paperback)
Pavel Brycz; Translated by Joshua Cohen, Marketa Hofmeisterova
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Fiction. Translated from the Czech by Joshua Cohen and Marketa
Hofmeisterova. Winner of the Orten Prize and the State Prize for
Literature in 2004. I, CITY is a story about the north Bohemian
city of Most, an ancient city founded on a primeval wetland that
was literally "relocated" to get to the brown coal beneath it. For
Pavel Brycz, the youngest ever recipient of the Czech State Prize
for Literature, Most is its varied inhabitants, and he as the city
tell its own story through these inhabitants, who make their
"appearances" in fleeting, ghost-like vignettes. As they emerge
from the pollution, or from the swamp of the town's founding, we
find not individuals but representatives. Theirs are historical
lives that mistrust history, or that live it at least with typical
irony. As Brycz makes fictional people say factual things and
factual people (Kafka, the pope, Gustav Husak) say fictional
things, post-modernity via magical realism makes its almost
requisite--though noiseless--appearance in the best easterly
European tradition of Danilo Kis or Isaac Babel.
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Three (Paperback)
Ann Quin; Introduction by Joshua Cohen
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Three opens with the disappearance at sea, possibly suicide, of a
young woman, identified only as S. A middle-aged couple, Ruth and
Leonard, had been spying on their young lodger in their summer
house by the sea, and now begin to pore over her diary, her audio
recordings and her movies – only to discover that she had been
spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing,
highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as
the couple’s fascination with S comes to dominate their already
flawed marriage, what emerges is an absorbing portrait of their
triangular relationship and the emotional and sexual undercurrents
of 1950s British middle-class life.
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On the Edge of Reason (Paperback)
Miroslav Krleza; Translated by Zora Depolo; Introduction by Joshua Cohen
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Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of
Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected
lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life
of "an orderly good-for-nothing among a whole crowd of neat, gray
good-for-nothings." But, one evening, surrounded by ladies and
gentlemen at a party, he hears the Director-General tell a lively
anecdote of how he shot four men like dogs for trespassing on his
property. In response, our hero blurts out an honest thought. From
this moment, all hell breaks loose. Written in 1938, On the Edge of
Reason reveals the fundamental chasm between conformity and
individuality. As folly piles upon folly, hypocrisy upon hypocrisy,
reason itself begins to give way, and the edge between reality and
unreality disappears.
Fiction. Joshua Cohen has performed in-depth investigations into
mirrors and navels to return with THE QUORUM, his first collection
of short fiction. A set of ten stories, a set of dreams, and a long
monologue, these are all first-person rants given over by the
somehow alienated individuals seeking only a sympathetic hearing,
all dealing with identity and religion as well as occupied with
technical ideas of reliable narration and the structure of "the
mind's ear." From a review of a book about the Holocaust that's
six-million blank pages to a suicide note from a young university
student, from a letter home detailing an economy based on hair to a
eulogy for a poem from a story narrated by three-hundred concubines
to the title story about a group of people who interchange
appearances, habits, proclivities and talents, THE QUORUM is a
tightly-written, sensitive, and inevitably absurd take on the
individual's lifelong quest to get someone, anyone, to listen.
A just society guarantees its members rights to basic civil
liberties protecting the political liberties associated with
democratic governance, while ensuring state accountability and
responsiveness to citizens. Despite broad agreement on these
abstract requirements, the conditions that foster justice, thus
understood, are a matter of long-standing controversy in political
theory.This important collection addresses these controversies with
over fifty articles on basic political institutions such as the
rule of law, judicial review, federalism, separation of powers,
freedom of speech, elections and parties, direct democracy,
organized social groups, and administrative agencies.
This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the
contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract
theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully selected
essays guide students through the texts, familiarizing them with
key elements of the theory, while at the same time introducing them
to current scholarly controversies. A bibliography of additional
work is provided. The classical social contract theorists represent
one of the two or three most important modern traditions in
political thought. Their ideas dominated political debates in
Europe and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries,
influencing political thinkers, statesmen, constitution makers,
revolutionaries, and other political actors alike. Debates during
the French Revolution and the early history of the American
Republic were often conducted in the language of Hobbes, Locke, and
Rousseau. Later political philosophy can only be understood against
this backdrop. And the contemporary revival of contractarian moral
and political thought, represented by John Rawls' A Theory of
Justice (1971) or David GauthierOs Morals by Agreement (1986),
needs to be appreciated in the history of this tradition.
One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns
with Moving Kings, a propulsive, incendiary novel that interweaves,
in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America’s
poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world’s oldest
conflict, in the Middle East. The year is 2015, and
twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War,
have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel
Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a
year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City
and begin working for Yoav’s distant cousin David King – a
proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently
divorced proprietor of King’s Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the
Tri-State area’s moving and storage industries. What starts off
as a profitable if eerily familiar job – an “Occupation” –
quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking
revenge. Driven by Cohen’s characteristic intelligence, boundless
energy, psychological tension, and humor, Moving Kings is a
powerful and provocative novel about faith, race, class, and what
it means to have a home.
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On Anger (Paperback)
Agnes Callard, Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen, Paul Bloom, Elizabeth Bruenig
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In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in
which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses
on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua
Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community
all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in
Rousseau's conception of the "society of the general will." The
book also explains Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian
idea that we are naturally good, shows why Rousseau thinks it is
reasonable for us to endorse that idea, and discusses how our
natural goodness might make a free community of equals possible for
us. And Cohen examines in detail Rousseau's picture of the
institutions of a democratic society: why he emphasized the
importance of political participation, how he argued against
extreme inequalities, and what led him to embrace a civil religion
as necessary for the society of the general will. This book
provides an analytical and critical appraisal of Rousseau's
political thought that, while frank about its limits, also explains
its enduring power.
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Just Marriage (Paperback, New)
Mary Lyndon Shanley; Edited by Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman
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From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the
promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "sacred
institution" of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Who
should be allowed to marry and is marriage a public or private act?
Should marriage be abandoned completely? Or should marriage be
redefined as a civil institution that promotes sexual and racial
equality?
As the fierce national debate over same-sex marriage and civil
unions continues, Mary Lyndon Shanley argues that while the state
should continue to play a role in regulating personal relations,
the law must be fundamentally reformed if marriage is to become a
more just institution. Fourteen prominent writers and thinkers
respond, including Nancy F. Cott, William N. Eskridge, Jr., Amitai
Etzioni, Martha Albertson Fineman, and Cass R. Sunstein.
A dazzling meditation on the philosophical, scientific, and
historical roots of attention, an attempt to pin down this elusive
state of being. To write a book in which every sentence is a first
sentence. To write a book in which every sentence is as good as the
first sentence. READ THE SMALL FONT FIRST. “To live as if every
day were your first,” “to live as if every day were your
last”— conditionally. READ THE LARGE FONT LAST. To begin with
sex. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED. To begin with loss. DO NOT BE DIVERTED.
To begin with death. THERE IS NOTHING TO READ HERE. To begin with
the end. YOU ARE STILL WASTING YOUR TIME.
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