Spector Scott (191 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding them. Sensational media reports fed the prurient public?s hunger for stories from the criminal underworld: sadism, sexual murder, serial killings, accusations of Jewish ritual child murder?as well as male and female homosexuality. In Violent Sensations, Scott Spector explores how the protagonists of these stories?people at society?s margins?were given new identities defined by the groundbreaking sciences of psychiatry, sexology, and criminology, and how this expert knowledge was then transmitted to an eager public by journalists covering court cases and police investigations. The book analyzes these sexual and criminal subjects on three levels: first, the expertise of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and scholars; second, the sensationalism of newspaper scandal and pulp fiction; and, third, the subjective ways that the figures themselves came to understand who they were. Throughout, Spector answers important questions about how fantasies of extreme depravity and bestiality figure into the central European self-image of cities as centers of progressive civilization, as well as the ways in which the sciences of social control emerged alongside the burgeoning emancipation of women and homosexuals.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condition: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding them. Sensational media reports fed the prurient public?s hunger for stories from the criminal underworld: sadism, sexual murder, serial killings, accusations of Jewish ritual child murder?as well as male and female homosexuality. In Violent Sensations, Scott Spector explores how the protagonists of these stories?people at society?s margins?were given new identities defined by the groundbreaking sciences of psychiatry, sexology, and criminology, and how this expert knowledge was then transmitted to an eager public by journalists covering court cases and police investigations. The book analyzes these sexual and criminal subjects on three levels: first, the expertise of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and scholars; second, the sensationalism of newspaper scandal and pulp fiction; and, third, the subjective ways that the figures themselves came to understand who they were. Throughout, Spector answers important questions about how fantasies of extreme depravity and bestiality figure into the central European self-image of cities as centers of progressive civilization, as well as the ways in which the sciences of social control emerged alongside the burgeoning emancipation of women and homosexuals.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. A nice, bright copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 331 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has moderate creasing and curling to front cover and first three pages, gentle rubbing and surface scratches to covers. Otherwise, the book is in very good condition with strong binding and clean, bright, unmarked pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xii) 304 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj art by J. K. Potter. This anthology contains: Introduction by Peter D. Pautz; Endless Night by Karl Edward Wagner; Down in the Darkness by Dean R. Koontz; The House that Knew No Hate by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; In the House of Gingerbread by Gene Wolfe; Where the Heart Is by Ramsey Campbell; Ellen in Her Time by Charles L. Grant; Nesting Instinct by Scott Baker; Trust Me by Joseph Lyons; The Fetch by Robert Aickman; Visitors by Jack Dann; Gentlemen by John Skipp and Craig Spector; Haunted by Joyce Carol Oates; In the Memory Room by Michael Bishop; Tales from the Original Gothic by John M. Ford; and The Afterword by Kathryn Cramer. Size: 8vo. J. K. Potter; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Nowhere else have Jews contributed so massively and consequentially to the general culture than in Germany. From Mendelssohn to Marx, from Freud to Einstein, Jewish contributions to secular German thought have been both wide-ranging in scope and profound in their impact. But how are these intellectual innovations contributions to European Jewish culture? How are they to be defined as Jewish? Scott Spector argues for a return to the actual subjects of German-Jewish history as a way to understand them and their worlds. By engaging deeply with the individual as well as with the literary or philosophical character of the text, Spector offers a fresh view of the presumed contradictions, uncertainties, and paradoxes that underlie the project of Jewish participation in culture. Spector forges a new definition of what modernist creativity means in our understanding of German-Jewish culture. …

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Modernism Without Jews?: German-Jewish Subjects and Histories. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Good, 21-page, staple-bound, ex-library paperback with library markings on front wrap; text is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good plus. Signed by author with an inscription to the previous owner on half title page. No other markings. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean, with minor wear to edges - rubbing, gently bumped corners. Text block is overall clean. Dust jacket has some slight edgewear, creases and rubbing. Jacket covers are faintly scuffed and rubbed but overall clean. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The item is brand new, never used or read. It's in perfect condition and may include supplements and/or access codes or come shrink-wrapped.

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Berkeley. 2002. University of California Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520236920. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 21. 345 pages. paperback. keywords: Prague Czechslovakia Germany Judaica Franz Kafka. DESCRIPTION - Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the 'territories' carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called 'Prague circle' and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, Prague's bourgeois Jews found themselves squeezed between a growing Czech national movement on the one hand and a racial rather than cultural conception of Germanness on the other. Displaced from the central social and cultural position they had come to occupy, the members of the 'postliberal' Kafka generation were dazzlingly productive and original, far out of proportion to their numbers. Seeking a relationship between ideological crisis and cultural innovation, Spector observes the emergence of new forms of territoriality. He identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle's political and cultural dilemma. One was Expressionism, a revolt against all limits and boundaries, the second was a spiritual form of Zionism incorporating a novel approach to Jewish identity that seems to have been at odds with the pragmatic establishment of a Jewish state, and the third was a sort of cultural no-man's-land in which translation and mediation took the place of 'territory.' Spector's investigation of these areas shows that the intensely particular, idiosyncratic experience of German-speaking Jews in Prague allows access to much broader and more general conditions of modernity. Combining theoretical sophistication with a refreshingly original and readable style, Prague Territories illuminates some early signs of a contemporary crisis from which we have not yet emerged. inventory #35236.…