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This book brings together nearly all of the author's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known side: that of the public intellectual. From modern patriotism and European identity to Hannah Arendt's writings on totalitarianism, from the idea of the historical museum and the theme of melancholy in art history to trenchant readings of Leo Tolstoy and Primo Levi, the first volume of the book shows the author at his most engaging, topical, and capacious. Introduced by the editor, who explains the major themes, sources, and frames of reference of the author's thought, the volume features five previously unpublished lectures, as well as more complete versions of several published essays, thereby giving the reader unique access to the author's late thought. In addition to historical theorists and intellectual historians, the book will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities in such fields as literary and cultural studies, art history and visual studies, and media studies.

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