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Theodor W. AdornoFelix BohrHans BlumenbergVolker Braun Michael BrennerPaul CelanAnn CottenZoltán DanyiHans Magnus Enzensberger

Urs Faes

Gunther Geltinger

Durs Grünbein

Jürgen Habermas

Lea Haller

Christoph Hein

Heinz Helle

Eva Illouz

Uffa Jensen

Dirk Jörke

Dževad Karahasan

Angela Krauß

Benjamín Labatut

Janina Loh

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

Philip Manow

Lutz Raphael

Judith Schalansky

Karl Schlögel

Clemens J. Setz

Maria Stepanova

Carlo Strenger

Stephan Thome

Philipp Weiss

Michael Wildt

Roman Yos

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Theodor W. AdornoAspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism A LectureWith an afterword by Volker Weiß(Original title: Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus. Ein Vortrag)approx. 100 pagesPaperboundRelease: July 2019

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The collected works of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) are published by Suhrkamp Verlag and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Volker Weiß, born in 1972, is a historian and publicist. His research and publications focus on 19th-century and 20th-century German history as well as the history and present state of right-wing extremism in Germany.

Theodor W. AdornoAspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism

»How these things continue, and the

responsibility for how they continue,

ultimately lies with us.«

On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Aus-tria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical interest. Against the backdrop of the rise of the NPD, which in the fi rst two years after its founding in November 1964 had already seen surprising success at the polls, Adorno analyses the goals, resources, and tactics of the new right-wing radicalism of his time. Contrasting it with »old« Nazi-Fascism, he gives a close examination of the reasons for which extreme right-wing movements were fi nding a positive reception – 20 years after the end of the war – in segments of the population of the Federal Republic.

Since then a lot has changed, but some things have remained the same or even, 50 years on, come back again. And thus Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Rad-icalism reads like a message-in-a-bottle to the future, whose value for our present Volker Weiß presents in his afterword.

»It is very often the case that convictions and ideologies assume their demonic, their truly

destructive nature once they are no longer that substantial in the objective situation.«

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Felix BohrThe War Criminals’ LobbyWest German aid for Nazi-perpetrators taken into custody abroad(Original title: Die Kriegsverbrecherlobby. Bundesdeutsche Hilfe für im Ausland inhaftierte NS-Täter)558 pagesClothboundRelease: October 2018

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Felix Bohr, born in 1982, is an historian and journalist. The War Criminals’ Lobby is his fi rst book.

Felix BohrThe War Criminals’ Lobby

Immediately after the Second World War, National Socialist war criminals were taken into custody by many Western European countries. Given the Federal Republic of Germany’s links to the West, the majority were released. In Italy and the Netherlands alone, fi ve Germans remained in police custody: SS man Herbert Kappler as the Gestapo commander responsible for the Ardeatine massacre, and the »Breda Four« who had played a signifi cant role in the murder of Dutch Jews. High-ranking German politicians, among them the social democrat German Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt, aided in securing their release.

Felix Bohr outlines the Federal Repub-lic’s activity on behalf of the Nazi perpe-trators arrested abroad. He reveals how church groups, veterans associations and diplomats formed an infl uential network of interests that off ered legal and fi nancial help. While victims of the Nazi regime struggled for re-entry into society and restitution, the lobby organ-ized support for the war criminals at the highest political level. Based on sources hitherto inaccessible, Bohr directs an all-encompassing gaze toward a chapter of West Germany’s history that has been narrowly explored until now.

The eternal desire to draw a line under it

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»Bohr succeeded in writing a brilliant book about the way in which

the remaining Nazis in West Germany used and manipulated the country’s politics and

how at the same time they claimed the prerogative of interpretation of the

national memory.« Klaus Hillenbrand, taz

Michael BrennerThe Long Shadow of the RevolutionJews and Anti-Semites in Hitler’s Munich 1918–1923(Original title: Der lange Schatten der Revolution. Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918–1923)350 pagesClothbound Release: June 2019

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Michael Brenner, born in Weiden in 1964, is Professor for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Director of the Center for Israel Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C. He is the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His many books, which have been translated into more than ten languages, include The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in the Weimar Republic and A Short History of the Jews.

Hans BlumenbergPhenomenological Writings 1981-1988Edited by Nicola Zambon(Original title: Phänomenologische Schriften 1981-1988)519 pagesRelease: October 2018

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Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Münster.

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Schriften zur Literatur 1945-1958 (2017)

Die Legitimität der Neuzeit (1996) International Sales: English world rights (MIT), Spanish world rights (Pre-Textos), Chinese simplex rights (SPPH), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Via Veritas), Arabic world rights (Arab Network for Research and Publishing), France (Gallimard), Italy (Marietti), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Hosei UP), Serbia (Zoran Stojanovic)

Arbeit am Mythos (1979) Internat ional Sales: English world rights (MIT), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Italy (Il Mulino – published, rights reverted), Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Ofi cyna Naukowa), Croatia (Sandorf)

Michael BrennerThe Long Shadow of the Revolution

Hans BlumenbergPhenomenological Writings 1981-1988

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in Munich

Hans Blumenberg: 100th birthday on 13 July 2020

After the First World War, Munich became the scene of unusual political constellations: in November 1918, Kurt Eisner became the fi rst ever Jewish Prime Minister of a German state, while in April 1919, Jewish writers like Gustav Landauer, Ernst Toller and Erich Mühsam became involved with the Bavarian Soviet Republic. The Jewish community was rather conservative, and even the Orthodox members liked to visit the Hofbräuhaus after going to the synagogue. But the beginning of the 20s already saw a Nazi police president, anti-Jewish tendencies in politics, the press and the church as well as Jewish expulsions and open violence against Jewish citizens on the streets.

The »City of Hitler« as Thomas Mann called the later »Capital of the Move-ment« in July 1923, was to become the point of departure for the unprecedented rise of the National Socialist Party, which had been founded there.

On the 27th of April 1988, the 50th anniversary of the death of Edmund Husserl, Hans Blumenberg noted: »The century now rushing towards its end will be regarded with hindsight by philosophy-historians as the ›century‹ of Phenomenology.« This prognosis is also an indicator of his own philosophical legacy: a phenomenological anthropology as developed by Blumenberg throughout his lifelong debate with the philosophy of Husserl. A highly productive phase of this debate dates back to the beginning of the 1980s after Blumenberg had completed his major studies of metaphor and myth and had began to devote himself intensely to anthropological questions.

The writings in this volume, all of them published for the fi rst time, document this phase in a comprehensive manner. Two major themes become apparent: Blumenberg’s continuous fi ne-tuning of Husserl’s method being one, the other being the development of a description of man rooted in phenomenology, one that, as is apparent today, still awaits its match in the 20th century.

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»That beautiful, cosy city had once attracted the best minds of the empire. How did it come to be that, now that they were gone, everything which was rotten and

corrupt in the empire and which could not get a foothold anywhere else was magically drawn to Munich?«

Lion Feuchtwange

»Phenomenology is not anthropological in the sense of what it can achieve and what it consists of, but rather from

the respect of what it does not contain.«

Michael WildtThe Volk’s AmbivalenceNational Socialism as Social HistoryWith numerous illustrations(Original title: Die Ambivalenz des Volkes. Der Nationalsozialismus als Gesellschaftsgeschichte)approx. 350 pagesPaperbackRelease: July 2019

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Michael Wildt is Professor for 20th-Century German History, focussing on National Socialism, at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Michael WildtThe Volk’s Ambivalence

Whoever speaks of the »Volk« cannot fail to mention the void at its heart. There is always a struggle to defi ne who belongs and who is to be kept out. Not only do language and history determine who is included and who is excluded but ancestry and ethnic attributes as well. In National Socialism the Volk assumed its anti-Semitic and racist form, with violence and self-empowerment becomi ng central elements. The concept of the Volksgemeinschaft is thus a key term for a political theory and social history of National Socialism, whose components Michael Wildt gathers in this book.

History

Lea HallerTransit TradeThe Flow of Money and Goods in Global Capitalism(Original title: Transithandel. Geld- und Warenströme im globalen Kapitalismus)approx. 400 pagesPaperbackRelease: June 2019

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Lea Haller, born in 1977, is a historian. After being stationed in Zurich, Paris, Cambridge (Harvard), und Geneva, she has been working as an editor for the history section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung since 2018.

Lea HallerTransit TradeFrom derivative markets to tax privileges to the creation of the world market

Coff ee, cotton, rubber: there are hardly any goods that are not shipped across the oceans. The driving force, however, is not the consumers, but the middlemen. Lea Haller presents for the fi rst time a detailed history of the transit trade that makes up an enormous part of the global economy.

Using Switzerland as an example, which handles a fi fth of all the raw material in the world today, Haller shows how centralised  techniques and institutions have been forming the process of globalisation since the middle of the 19th century: from derivative exchange through international  arbitration courts and all the way up through tax privileges for multinational companies. The result is nothing less than a history of the emergence of the world market.

History

»Michael Wildt is to thank for the fact that research focuses ever more strongly upon processes

of communication in which ›Volksgenossen‹ appropriated the concept of ›Volksgemeinschaft‹.«

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Lea Haller’s ground-breaking study sheds light on the key players that have

shaped the global fl ow of goods from 1850 up through today.« Adam Tooze

Jürgen HabermasAlso a History of PhilosophyVolume 1: The Occidental Constellation of Faith and KnowledgeVolume 2: Rational Liberty. Traces of the Discourse on Faith and Knowledge(Original title: Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie. Band 1: Die okzidentale Konstellation von Glauben und Wissen; Band 2: Vernünftige Freiheit. Spuren des Diskurses über Glauben und WissenApprox. 1500 pages in two volumesClothboundRelease: September 2019

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Jürgen Habermas, born in 1929, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/ Main. He is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and awards. In 2001 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. His work is published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

Philosophy

Jürgen HabermasAlso a History of Philosophy

The new book by Jürgen Habermas is also a history of philosophy. Employing a genealogical style it examines how today’s dominant forms of western post-metaphysical thought came into being. Using the discourse on faith and knowledge, which emerged from out of two strong axial-period traditions in the Roman Empire, as a guide, Habermas traces how philosophy successively disengaged itself from its symbiosis with religion and became secularised. From a systematic perspective and in great detail he presents the decisive confl icts, lessons learned, and turning points, as well as their accompanying transformations in science, law, politics, and society.

The new book from Jürgen Habermas, however, is not only a history of philos-ophy. It is also a refl ection on the func-tion of a philosophy that adheres to the rational liberty of communicatively so-cialised subjects: it should explain »what our growing scientifi c knowledge of the world means for us – for us as human beings, as modern contemporaries, and as individuals«.

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»Philosophy cannot give up in the face of the growing complexity of our society and our ever-increasing specialised knowledge of the world if it still desires to encourage

its contemporaries to make use of its rationality and to form its social being in a

practical manner.«

90th birthday on 18 June 2019

»I am moved by the question of what will remain of

philosophy once it no longer attempts to contribute to a

rational explanation of our understanding of self and

the world.«

Roman YosThe Young HabermasA Philosophical Analysis of His Early Thought 1952–1962(Original title: Der junge Habermas. Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung seines frühen Denkens 1952–1962)approx. 600 pagesPaperback Release: June 2019

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Roman Yos holds a Doctorate in Philosophy and is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Roman YosThe Young Habermas

Roman Yos’ analysis of the origins of one of the most infl uential works of recent philosophy is an original examination of how early in his career Jürgen Habermas was already gradually at work transposing his distinct philosophical-political thought into a viable system. This can be understood as a process of learning, the development of which saw contrary intellectual infl uences come together that called for complex mediation. Yos reconstructs the exciting emergence of Habermas’ thought from the interrelationship of his early writings, while at the same time providing insight into their temporal and historical background.

Habermas GlobalThe Reception History of a WorkEdited by Luca Corchia, Stefan Müller-Doohm and William Outhwaite(Original title: Habermas global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks)approx. 400 pagesPaperbackRelease: June 2019

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Luca Corchia is a Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Pisa.

Stefan Müller-Doohm is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oldenburg.

William Outhwaite is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University.

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Stefan Müller-Doohm: Jürgen Habermas. Eine Biographie (2014) International Sales: English world rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (SSAP), Spanish world rights (Trotta), France (Gallimard), Korea (Saemulgyul)

Habermas GlobalThe Reception History of a Work

Jürgen Habermas’ writings have found an international audience – and not only in academic circles but readers who are interested in politics. The current volume sees the international reception history of the prominent philosopher and public intellectual illuminated by more than 30 authors, who represent more than 15 language and scientifi c cultures. In so doing, for the fi rst time ever this edition grants a comprehensive look at the inter-national impact of Habermas’ thought, while simultaneously casting a new light on all of his work, which is inseparable from his concept of communicative rationality.

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Eva IllouzUnlovingA Sociology of Negative Relations(Translated German title: Warum Liebe endet. Eine Soziologie negativer Beziehungen)447 pagesClothboundRelease of the German edition by Suhrkamp: October 2018

International Sales: English world rights (Oxford UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese complex rights (Linking), France (Seuil), Italy (Codice), Netherlands (Ten Have), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Dolbegae), Israel (Modan)

Eva Illouz, born in 1961 in Morocco, is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Why Love Hurts (2011) International Sales: Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Russia (Directmedia), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Zahar), France (Seuil), Italy (Il Mulino), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Dolbegae), Poland (Krytyka Polityczna), Romania (Art), Croatia (Planetopija), Serbia (Psihopolis Institut), Turkey (Zen Kitabevi), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou), Israel (Keter)

Sociology

Eva IllouzUnloving

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives – the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. To be in love is to become an adept of Plato, to see through a person an idea, perfect and complete. Endless novels, poems, or movies teach us the art of becoming Plato’s disciples, loving the perfection manifested by the beloved. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is far more silent on the no less mysterious moment when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indiff erent, when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or a few hours ago.

Unloving is Eva Illouz’ last instalment in a two-decades-long study on the ways in which capitalism and the culture of modernity have transformed our emotional and romantic life. It inquires into the cultural and social conditions which explain what has become an ordinary feature of sexual and romantic relations: leaving them. What are the cultural and emotional mechanisms that make people revise, undo, reject, and avoid relationships? What is the emotional dynamic by which a romantic preference changes? By drawing on a wide range of sources – from Émile Durkheim to Jane Austen, from Karl Marx to Lena Dunham – and forcefully engaging with the question of emotional and sexual freedom, she reveals the choice to unchoose as a crucial modality of subjectivity – and unloving as one of the pivotal conditions of relationships in the era of radical personal freedom.

»Nobody has analyzed the eff ects that the internet and

capitalism have on love with more passion and precision than the Israeli sociologist. She has been dedicated to

the subject for two decades and for the time being,

Unloving represents the conclusion of her research

project.« Spiegel Online

»A new book by Eva Illouz is always a remarkable experience. Like no one

else in the fi eld of societal diagnostics, she aims at

once at head and heart.« Literatur Spiegel

»The analysis of the year.« Literatur Spiegel

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Uff a JensenHow the Couch Came to Calcutta A Global History of Early PsychoanalysisWith numerous illustrations(Original title: Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam. Eine Globalgeschichte der frühen Psychoanalyse)Clothboundapprox. 538 pagesRelease: March 2019

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Uff a Jensen, born 1969, teaches History at the TU Berlin and conducts research at the university’s Center for Research on Antisemitism.

Uff a JensenHow the Couch Came to CalcuttaThe fi rst comprehensive global history of psychoanalysis

At the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis. It developed into a global phenomenon in just a few decades. Concepts like »super-ego«, »narcissism« or »the Oedipus com-plex« have long been a part of our every-day speech. In order to understand this dynamic development, Uff a Jensen con-siders three cities which, in addition to Vienna, were of great importance for the development of the psychoanalytic move-ment: Berlin, London and Calcutta.

Jensen shows how teaching and treatment techniques were adapted to the background of existing therapy forms and local tradi-tions, and the ways in which these develop-ments in turn infl uenced Freud. By means of narrative »keyhole texts« Jensen looks di-rectly into the consulting room, while also shedding light on the political and social aspects of global psychoanalysis. Conceived from the beginning as a kind of »technology of the self«, it paved the way for today’s cul-ture of counsellors und coaching. This global history also demonstrates how the thera-peutic handling of emotions was of central importance: Freud himself understood his therapy as »a cure through love«.

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»We should be less surprised by the fact that

psychoanalysis was of such interest in Calcutta and more

by the fact that, almost 100 years later, this remains

surprising.«

History / Psychoanalysis

Dirk JörkeThe Size of DemocracyOn the Spatial Dimension of Governance and Participation(Original title: Die Größe der Demokratie. Über die räumliche Dimension von Herrschaft und Partizipation)approx. 280 pagesPaperback Release: May 2019

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Dirk Jörke, born in 1971, is Professor for Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Dirk JörkeThe Size of Democracy

Though for a long time there was consensus about the integration of national states into transnational communities like the European Union, this view is now under pressure: Brussels is too far away, the populations of member states have too little infl uence – »Take back control« as the Brexiteers said.

In view of this constellation Dirk Jörke sifts through arguments and fi ndings – from Aristotle through Jürgen Habermas– on the relationship between size and the democratic quality of states. Coming from a republican position in which the equality and the participation of citizens take centre stage, he pleads for a spatial limit to democracy and the reconversion of the EU into a confederation in a book that is as important as it is controversial.

Political Theory

Janina LohRobot EthicsAn Introduction (Original title: Roboterethik. Eine Einführung)approx. 200 pagesPaperback Release: September 2019

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Janina Loh is a teacher and researcher in the fi eld of Technology and Media Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Janina LohRobot EthicsArtifi cial Intelligence and ethical norms: the hot topic of the day

In her essential book, philosopher Janina Loh addresses the moral challenges that play a role in the construction of robots as well as in dealing with them: Are robots autonomous? Can they act morally? Do they have a moral value? Should they have rights? Who is responsible when a robot harms a human being?

The question as to the attribution of responsibility not only relates to ethical considerations about robots, but off ers an incredible bridge to further areas of human interaction; for example, in decisions about the use of and handling of robots in politics (political responsibility), economics (economic responsibility, consumer responsibility, and corporate responsibility, also known as corporate social responsibility) and law (legal responsibility).

Loh critically discusses these as well as other ethical questions and introduces some of the most important solutions.

Philosophy / Ethics

»The EU is too big for the formation of republican values

and practices.«

Practical Philosophy

Claus-Steff en MahnkopfThe Philosophy of the Orgasm (Original title: Philosophie des Orgasmus)245 pagesPaperbackRelease: January 2019

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Claus-Steff en Mahnkopf, born in 1962, studied Music and Philosophy. He is a composer with wide-ranging work in all genres and the author of numerous books. He is the editor of the magazine Musik & Ästhetik and is Professor of Composition at the College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig.

»The orgasm is the blank space of negative philosophy.«

When on the quest for the loveliest of moments, one swiftly alights on the climax of climaxes: orgasm. Although a long-running theme in the media, sexual fulfi lment is no simple matter. It is biological and cultural, sensual and symbolic, of the body and the mind, emotional and communicative. As well as being feminine and masculine, therefore deeply human. In it natural history and evolution rub shoulders with the great tales of human happiness, of emancipated society, a mature culture of love and a liberated gender relationship: in short, a good life.

In this book, wonder at orgasm dons a philosophy that connects the science of art, literature, fi lm and music, intellec-tual discourse with everyday experience and the political with the utopia of a pas-sionate and fulfi lling happiness.

Claus-Steff en MahnkopfThe Philosophy of the Orgasm

Philip ManowThe Political Economy of Populism(Original title: Die Politische Ökonomie des Populismus)approx. 160 pagesPaperbackRelease: November 2018

International Sales: Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)

Philip Manow, born in 1963, is Professor of Politics at the University of Bremen.

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Im Schatten des Königs (2008) International Sales: English world rights (Polity), Russia (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy)

Philip ManowThe Political Economy of Populism»Whoever utters populism, should also utter capitalism.«

Populism is a multifarious phenomenon. Sometimes from the right, sometimes from the left; sometimes it articulates a protest against open markets, sometimes it turns against migration. Also in its geographic distribution it is rich in variance: in southern Europe leftist populism holds sway, in northern Europe that of the right. Philip Manow develops a comparative explanation for this initially contradictory-seeming picture. The trigger is created by the respective economic models of growth, the composition of the labour market and the social state, and, in short, the respective political economy. It becomes clear: Whoever wants to talk about populism but leaves out capitalism, will always end up with identity politics – and will inevitably themselves become party to the confl ict.

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On the most beautiful of feelings

The fi rst philosophical contemplation of the orgasm

»Philip Manow, one of Europe’s comparatively and historically

most adept and most perceptive political scientists, presents an interesting and strident text on

the roots and manifestations of populistically mobilizing parties.« Silja Häusermann, FAZ

»Philip Manow’s book makes an important contribution

to better grasp the economic reasons of those who turn away from the democratic institutions

and from the project of European unity. In doing so, it also opens new pathways to political practice.« Albrecht

Koschorke, NZZ

»Those who don’t want to stare at the television

screen aghast on this year’s election eves should read

this thin, analytically clear and pleasantly polemic book

beforehand.« Jens Bisky, SZ

»The orgasm embodies pure positivity. It is the unconditional yes. That constitutes its explosive force within philosophy.

Thus, the orgasm takes an antagonistic position to the fundamental mode of thinking of an entire century:

the principle of criticism, of negativity, of ambivalence, of deconstruction and doubt. But where the orgasm is

concerned, there is no but, no maybe, no however, no possibly. And so, it acts transversely to intellectualism, which in reverse

may explain why it is avoided by contemporary masterminds in the same manner of other forms of positivity such as giving

birth, conception, faithfulness, oaths of love, the incisive decisions in life. Affi rmation is the key to life.«

Lutz RaphaelBeyond Coal and SteelA Social History of Western Europe after the Boom Frankfurt Adorno Lectures 2018 With numerous illustrations(Original title: Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl. Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte Westeuropas nach dem Boom. Frankfurter Adorno-Vorlesungen 2018)approx. 500 pagesClothbound Release: May 2019

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Lutz Raphael, born in 1955, is Professor for New and Recent History at the University of Trier. He has also held Guest Professorships in Oxford and Paris, among others. He is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature as well as the Historical Commission in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013 he received a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

When the chimneys disappeared and the robots cameThe prehistory of our post-industrial present

In the 1970s many western European states were gripped by unprecedented structural transformation: the factories of the old industries disappeared, millions of jobs were lost, previously booming cities were beset by crises, and new social questions determined the political agenda. But what happened to the proud industrial citizen– to his jobs, career path, and residential districts? How did the social rights and political participation of workers change when competition went global, management was streamlined, and fi nancial capitalism became dominant? Which ideas and ideologies accompanied the change?

Using the example of industrial work in Great Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany, Lutz Raphael recounts the incredibly complex and exciting history of western European de-industrialisation. Lasting three decades, it corresponded with an increase in pro-ductivity and living standards, but also brought low wages, growing inequality and a crisis of democratic representation in its wake. And perhaps the most impor-tant point: It has carried on until today– as the prehistory to our post-industrial present. This book helps us understand it all.

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Karl SchlögelRussian BerlinNew and expanded editionWith photos(Original title: Das russische Berlin. Erweiterte Neuausgabe)Approx. 800 pagesClothboundRelease: April 2019

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Karl Schlögel, born in 1948, taught Eastern European History up until his retirement as Professor Emeritus, fi rst at the University of Constance, and from 1995 onwards at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. His most important publications include Moskau lesen, Petersburg 1909-1921. Das Laboratorium der Moderne, In Space We Read Time, and Moscow 1937. His book Das sowjetische Jahr hundert. Archäologie einer unter gegangenen Welt (The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Vanished World), published in 2017, received the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair that year.

Berlin welcomed almost half a million Russian refugees at the beginning of the1920s. In the inter-war period, the city was not only the »stepmother of Russian cities«, but also the secret centre of the world revolution. This is where those totalitarian movements which would mark Europe in the »age of extremes« fi rst ran into one another.

Karl Schlögel uncovers the great within the small. He follows the dramatis personae and reconstructs the networks through which they moved. The world of the train stations and the salons of the Tiergarten area of Berlin, the poets of the silver age and the agit-prop artists of Soviet power, receptions at the Soviet embassy and Nabokov’s observations on the rise of the Nazis, taxi drivers’ perceptions of the city and the scandal surrounding the »tsar’s daughter Anastasia«. Timetables and directories play an important role for Schlögel, as do cafés and cabarets, the ceremonial aspects of diplomacy and the practices of the underground struggle, the polyglot world of Comintern-functionaries and the maps of the geo-politicians.

Russian Berlin is no romantic place, but the arena of an age that was both post-war and pre-war in one. Ever since Rus-sia and the European Union have become estranged, the highly interconnected »Russkij Berlin« of the present has been politically divided. The double view of the former as well as current Russian Berlin reveals itself unexpectedly actual and productive.

Karl SchlögelRussian Berlin

»Schlögel’s great strength lies in his talent for

empathy combined with an encyclopaedic knowledge of German-Russian relations.

Through his brilliant essays an image of that very

›Russian Berlin‹ that existed before the rise of Hitler

grows before the reader’s eyes.« Peter Merseburger, Die Zeit

Carlo StrengerThose Damned Liberal ElitesWho They Are and Why We Need Them(Original title: Diese verdammten liberalen Eliten. Wer sie sind und warum wir sie brauchen)approx. 180 pagesPaperbackRelease: May 2019

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Carlo Strenger is a philosopher and psychoanalyst, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Tel Aviv University and Chair of Clinical Psychology. The author of six previous books is an internationally renowned commentator on Israeli aff airs, writing primarily for Haaretz, Israel’s leading liberal newspaper, but also for Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Guardian, Huffi ngton Post, The New York Times and Foreign Policy.

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Carlo StrengerThose Damned Liberal Elites

In the debate on the rise of nationalistic and anti-liberal parties, an ancient ghost has reappeared – the ghost of liberal cosmopolitans: well-educated, internationally connected scientists, journalists or politicians who assure each other of their moral superiority. The rift between cosmopolitans and patriotic communitarians is considered one of the central confl icts of our time.

An accurate diagnosis? On the other hand, does the concept of uprooted liberal elites paint a distorted picture? Psychoanalyst and writer Carlo Strenger knows this group all too well: because he himself is one of them – and because he sees them in his therapeutic practice. By consulting relevant sociological literature, he generalizes his fi ndings. Moreover, his self-critical conclusion fi nds that indeed, the liberal elites are often too arrogant. Still we need their expertise. Strenger concludes with a twofold plea: for liberal cosmopolitans to be more down to earth and for a basic liberal-cosmopolitan education for everyone.

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