Reading Gnosticism against the backdrop of postwar German debates about secularization, political theology, and post-secularism, "No Spiritual Investment in the World" sheds new light on the historical contours of postwar German philosophy.
The book's focus on the post-1945 period is a welcome update to the now-landmark 1993 collection Postwar Japan as History, which set the parameters of postwar Japanese historiography over the subsequent two decades.
He concludes: "Regionalism and globalism made clear that geography and how it is perceived played a central and largely unexamined role in framing the postwar grand strategies" of Great Britain and the United States (262-63).
This collection of essays (originally published in 2007 as Le Japon apres la guerre) is concerned with how to chronologically delimit and conceptually define the postwar period in Japan.
The report establishes a national historic context, or narrative history, of residential properties of the postwar era and outlines methodologies for streamlining survey and evaluation of those properties for eligibility for listing in the National Register.
Twenty per cent of the population of Britain is either Irish or claims to have Irish ancestry, and in the majority of instances this can be traced to postwar Irish emigration to Britain, particularly the exodus of the 1950s.
In recent years, historical scholarship has paid due attention to the lives of Holocaust survivors and the rebuilding of Jewish communities in postwar Europe, and a great number of articles, edited volumes, and monographs has been published.