books by Richard T. Gray

books by Richard T. Gray

books:

Richard T. Gray

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia
Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, ...

Greenwood Press, 2005

Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term "Kafkaesque." This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, ...

About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Kritik (Detroit, Mich.).)
Richard T. Gray

Wayne State University Press, 2004

Once associated with astrology and occultist prophecy, the art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded ...

Unfashionable Observations: Volume 2 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stanford University Press, 1998

An Excellent Translation of a Transitional Work
Sometimes, as I channel surf past some WWF goon belting another with a chair, I can't help but feel that we suffer from the opposite of the problems Nietzsche discussed, and that a little more suffocating bourgeoisie-Christian 'good culture' couldn't hurt. But that's ...

Unpublished Writings from the period of Unfashionable Observations: Volume 11 (The Complete Works of ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stanford University Press, 1999

Thumbs up to Stanford Univ Press
Nietzsche has gained much fame and notoriety over the 100 years since his death. This has, unfortunately, led many people to believe that they have some idea what he wrote, why and when. The other "reviews" here are a case in point. The writings here are from the ...

Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (Literary Conjugations)
Richard T. Gray

University of Washington Press, 2008

In "Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850", Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capitalist industrial economy, which was paralleled ...