Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about – and critic of – film who has written books and numerous articles on canonical subjects such as the Western, Film Noir, and Hitchcock's Vertigo.In Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophic...

In this collection of 29 stories, you can visit a smoke-filled bar in a fantasy world, or experience a love affair with artificial intelligence. Maybe you'd prefer to go back in time and relive the experience of going to a baseball game with your dad, or go back even farther to live in a perilous world when medicine was in its infancy. What's it like to experience the soul-crushing loss of a loved one, or to sit in Heaven's waiting room? Would you rather be a clairvoyant in the world of hi...

Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk bands across the United States took aim at the man, his presidency, and the idea of America he was selling to voters nationwide. Small yet vibrant scenes across the country emerged to challenge the communal norms and social values projected on them by the popular media and consumer culture. Pu...

This edited collection addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition in Central Eastern Europe. Its contributors present a detailed analysis of the events unfolding during the last three decades in the region, focusing in particular on identity-building processes and reforms in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.The contributors outline reasons why some of these states accomplished a decisive br...

Im harten Leben des Wilden Westens prallen Welten aufeinander, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Auf der einen Seite steht das Gesetz, das für Recht und Ordnung sorgen soll, auf der anderen Seite das Geld und die Interessen derer, die es besitzen. Doch was wäre dieses Leben wert, wenn es keine Männer geben würde, die unter Einsatz ihres Lebens für ein Gleichgewicht zwischen beiden Seiten sorgen würden – keinen Cent! In diesem Sonderband sind drei Romane großer Western-Autoren so...