Communitarian Third Way


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This is an incisive look at Alexandre Marc's elite Ordre Nouveau movement, one of the earliest and most influential attempts to work with the German youth movements of the 1930s.







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The Five Paradoxes of Modernity


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In this elegant, highly readable book, Compagnon confronts the postmodern's co-optation of the modern by tracing paradoxical elements in the aesthetic of the new - particularly the aesthetic and moral contradictions built into the enthusiasm for the new - in the "five paradoxes of modernity": the superstition of the new, the religion of the future, the mania for theory, the appeal to mass culture, and the passion for repudiation.










After the Deportation


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Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.




The Catholic Periodical Index


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Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's Fiction


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In Pathos, Poetry and Politics, Russell Williams examines the literary style in the work of Michel Houellebecq. This book underlines the extent to which the author's notorious provocations are key to the texture of his novels.