Bøger af Arthur Haberman

In this seventh installment of Arthur Haberman's Toronto Justice series, Homicide Detective Danny Miller and his team are faced with a body on a beach in British Columbia, a suspicious suicide, body parts found in a garbage processing plant, and the murder of a fabricator of artwork.Covid is waning, but many social and political issues related to the disease must be addressed. Libraries are dealing with matters related to censorship in addition to reopening. A drug dealer is being investigated, and the police attempt to take down his whole operation.All the characters have had their lives changed by Covid. Toronto continues to be a diverse and unique place, which remains proud of the city's variety of cultures and peoples.

In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of the new urban cultural and social world which would make him described by a number of historians as the first modern. Indeed, it is he who coined the term 'modernity'. In the east, Ivan Turgenev with On the Eve begins reflections about Russia and modernity which would result in his next novel, set in 1859, Fathers and Sons. The latter still resonates today. In Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt is inventing the Renaissance as a means of understanding what is happening in his own time. Indeed, we never talked about a Renaissance until Burckhardt published his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy in 1860, something he wrote in order to better understand his own times. In the West, several important and central works of European culture are being written in England by both British writers and exiles. Marx is researching Das Capital and writing A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Mazzini is writing his major work on modern nationalism, The Duties of Man, just as Italy is beginning its decade of unification and the European map is beginning a period of extraordinary change. John Stuart Mill published his On Liberty in early 1859, still the work that is the modern ground of democratic ideas dealing with the relationship between liberty and authority. And in November 1859 one of the dozen or so most influential works of all of European history and science, one that shattered many pre-modern concepts, The Origin of Species, was published by Charles Darwin. The thinkers who were prominent at the time were, in a full sense, public intellectuals. Their works were read, debated, applauded, feared, defended and scorned in the public forums, what philosophers sometimes called the marketplace. It was in 1859 that modernity, the world as we now know it, gets confronted and encountered. As a result concepts and ideas we still use, then new, get thought about and become part of the public discourse. From this point on, the dialogue is forever transformed.

In this sixth installment of Arthur Haberman's Toronto Justice series, Homicide detective Danny Miller and his team are faced with a hate crime on the street, a puzzling murder of a musician, and the killing of a dentist in his office. There are also some tensions in the relationships among the police, the government, and the press.All this occurs in the middle of Covid, and all the characters are deeply affected by what happens to their personal lives, their identity, their work, and their families during the pandemic. Danny's world includes many people who reflect the diversity and uniqueness of his beloved city.

The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style "e;low, dishonest."e; That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth century, the West had stumbled into war in 1914. It managed to survive a conflagration, but it failed in the aftermath to create something valued. In 1930, Europe was questioning itself and its own viability. Where are we heading? a number of public intellectuals asked. Who are we and how do we build moral social and political structures? Can we continue to believe in the insights and healing quality of our culture? Major thinkersMann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley as well as a number of artists, including Picasso and Magritte, and musicians, such as Weill, sought to grapple with issues that remain central to our lives today: the viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values coming to terms with a darker view of human nature mass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality identity and the "e;other"e; in Western civilization new ways to represent the postwar world the epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and the new Fascismwas it a new norm or an aberration? Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period.

Danny Miller is a homicide detective in Toronto, painstakingly working with his team to solve a string of murders that are plaguing the city. With every case, Danny is transported through a complex and diverse set of lives that take him through all corners of the city and the different motives that spark some of the darkest crimes.But the murders seem to be the easy part. Danny is also working on a case that seems to be leading nowhere. After a string of robberies leave Toronto's elite stripped of their prized possessions and exposed for their controversial behaviour, Danny is left to try and solve these crimes with no evidence. In a world of social justice, it's up to Danny and his team to solve it.