The Afaustian Bargain
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The Faustian Bargain
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Author : Jonathan Petropoulos
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-03-30
The Faustian Bargain written by Jonathan Petropoulos and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-30 with History categories.
Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of the key figures in the art world of Nazi Germany. Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals who like Faust, that German archetype, chose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" the Van Eyck brother's Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who filled German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, the leading art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmann--a leading art historian--was probably the single most prolific art plunderer in the war (and arguably in history). Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it is more remarkable that most of them rehabilitated their careers and lived comfortably after the war. Petropoulos has discovered a network of these rehabilitated experts that flourished in the postwar period, and he argues that this is a key to the tens of thousands of looted artworks that are still "missing" today. Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship between culture and politics in the Third Reich.
Devil S Contract
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Author : Ed Simon
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2024-07-09
Devil S Contract written by Ed Simon and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-09 with Social Science categories.
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain—the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power—has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues, and illustrates how the impulse fto sacrifice our principles in exchange for power is present in all kinds of social ills, from colonialism to nuclear warfare, from social media to climate change to AI, and beyond. In doing so, Simon conveys just how much the Faustian bargain shows us about power and evil ... and ourselves.
The Faustian Bargain Of The Soviet Automobile
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Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Faustian Bargain Of The Soviet Automobile written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Automobile industry and trade categories.
Faustian Pact In International Law
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Author : Edwin Bikundo
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Faustian Pact In International Law written by Edwin Bikundo and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with Law categories.
The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agamben's work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach, as exemplified in its deft and insightful close readings of drama (Goethe's Faust), prose fiction (Melville's Bartleby and Benito Cereno) and lyric, be it devotional (Laudes Regiae, Handel, 'The Lord is a Man of War') or otherwise (Edwin Starr's 'War', Boy George's 'War Song'). Attentive to language, plot, theme and characterisation, these readings not only read the texts in question, but they also read them anew, yielding fresh, innovative, and unique cultural legal interpretations.
The Faust Legend
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Author : Sara Munson Deats
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-19
The Faust Legend written by Sara Munson Deats and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with Drama categories.
Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.
Governing Complexity
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Author : Andreas Thiel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Governing Complexity written by Andreas Thiel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explains why governance is polycentric and what that means in practice, using examples of complex natural resource management.
Framing Faust
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Author : Inez Hedges
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2009-03-10
Framing Faust written by Inez Hedges and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Performing Arts categories.
In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonistic—yet complementary—figures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions. Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles pursues a dialectical approach to cultural history. Using the probing lens of cultural studies, Hedges shows how claims to the Faustian legacy permeated the struggle against Nazism in the 1930s while infusing not only the search for socialist utopias in Russia, France, and Germany, but also the quest for legitimacy on both sides of the Cold War divide after 1945. Hedges balances new perspectives on such well-known works as Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus and Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax with discussions of previously overlooked twentieth-century expressions of the Faust myth, including American film noir and the Faust films of Stan Brakhage. She evaluates musical compositions—Hanns Eisler’s Faust libretto, the opera Votre Faust by Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor, and Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata—as well as works of fiction and drama in French and German, many of which have heretofore never been discussed outside narrow disciplinary confines. Enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, Framing Faust provides a fascinating and focused narrative of some of the major cultural struggles of the past century as seen through the Faustian prism, and establishes Faust as an important present-day frame of reference.
The Culture Vulture
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Author : Carol Dunlap
language : en
Publisher: Preservation Press
Release Date : 1994
The Culture Vulture written by Carol Dunlap and has been published by Preservation Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
The Social Responsibility Of The Scientist
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Author : Martin Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Social Responsibility Of The Scientist written by Martin Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.
Limiting Leviathan
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Author : Donald P. Racheter
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Limiting Leviathan written by Donald P. Racheter and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
The enormous growth of the state occurring over much of this century has led the authors of this book to re-examine the proper relationship between the American people and their government. The authors first analyse the case for limiting governmental power and discuss which limits are appropriate, including tax and regulatory limits and electoral, congressional term and constitutional limits. They also examine possible auxiliary sources of state limitation, such as technological and economic limitations, informal order and lessons to be learned from local government. In sum, this book provides a seminal analysis of the necessity of limiting state power in order to preserve human rights. Limiting Leviathan will be a valuable reference point for scholars of public choice and government institutions.