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Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism
Mark Harrison
The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making.
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Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy
Claude Willan
This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in literature and in being its author.
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The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope
Elliot R. Wolfson
The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion.
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Between Empire and Nation
Milena B. Methodieva
Tells the story of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities.
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