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New music engravings available in two keys, with notes on the cycle.

New music engravings available in two keys, with notes on the cycle.

First-time collection of Bernstein's theatre songs, with selections from Candide, Mass, On the Town, Peter Pan, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, West Side Story, Wonderful Town, and other shows. Includes songs cut from shows and other songs never before published. With extensive commentary. There are different song lists for all three volumes.

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Revised edition based on manuscript sources. Newly engraved and edited. Includes a Bernstein biography as well as historical and performance notes.

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz SingerAl Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young Jolson dreamed of becoming a star, and he did. T...

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The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our behavior radically and quickly, the most likely outcome will be the destruction of countless species and forms of life, including our own. But we also need to change the way we th...

The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our behavior radically and quickly, the most likely outcome will be the destruction of countless species and forms of life, including our own. But we also need to change the way we th...

Richard J. Bernstein argues that despite the apparent chaotic debates about naturalism, there has recently been a series of powerful arguments that support a version of naturalism that is in the spirit of John Dewey's pragmatic naturalism. After presenting a sketch of Dewey's pragmatic naturalism, he critically examines the works of a variety of thinkers-Robert Brandom, John McDowell, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philip...

Warum Hannah Arendt die Denkerin der Stunde ist. »Ein wunderbares Buch.« Jerome Kohn »Begreifen«, schreibt Hannah Arendt in ihrem Hauptwerk Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, bedeute, »sich aufmerksam und unvoreingenommen der Wirklichkeit zu stellen, was immer sie ist oder war«. Zur Lebenswirklichkeit der 1906 geborenen Arendt gehörten Antisemitismus und Gestapo-Haft ebenso wie Flucht, Staatenlosigkeit und die Erfahrung, von der US-Reg...

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Bernstein argues that political philosopher Hannah Arendt is a more relevant presence than ever in our thinking due to her attention to how to conduct the self in relation to the darkness and simultaneous optimism of a historical period, in this concise and punchy application of a key mid-century thinker to the contemporary climate.

Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think a...

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We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can't escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence.