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36 produkter
Enlightenment
The Rise of Modern Paganism
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1995
467 kr
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In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments.
Modernism
The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 2009
239 kr
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In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. He traces the revolutionary path of …
Weimar Culture
The Outsider as Insider
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 2001
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219 kr
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First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of …
Freud
A Life for Our Time
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 2006
511 kr
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"A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas"[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it …
Freud Reader
Häftad, 1995
249 kr
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What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the …
Freud Reader
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1995
215 kr
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Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of 20th century life. To understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his vivid writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. The Freud Reader is the first single-volume work to bring together in accessible …
Godless Jew
Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1989
217 kr
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“Why did none of the devout create psychoanalysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?” Freud once asked. In this book, the eminent historian and Freud scholar Peter Gay enters the long-running controversy about the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis. Gay takes …
Freud for Historians
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1987
569 kr
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Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading …
Loss of Mastery
Puritan Historians in Colonial America
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1966
500 kr
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A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay offers a brilliant exploration of how early New Englanders wrote their history and what that writing reveals about the Puritan mind. Drawing on figures from William Bradford and Cotton Mather to Jonathan Edwards, Gay shows how …
Mozart
A Life
Av Peter Gay
E-bok, 1999
166 kr
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A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart''s unshakable hold on the public''s consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay''s concise and deft look at the genius''s life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of …
Enlightenment Volume 1
Av Peter Gay
E-bok, 2013
196 kr
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The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic …
Reading Freud
Explorations and Entertainments
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1991
444 kr
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“As every biographer of Freud must ruefully acknowledge, Freud, that great unriddler of mysteries, left behind some intriguing private mysteries of his own. It was because I hoped to solve some of these mysteries that the stratagem of finding my way to Freud by indirections commended itself to me.” …
My German Question
Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Av Peter Gay
E-bok, 2019
243 kr
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"Not only a memoir, it''s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" (Publishers Weekly). In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 …
Why the Romantics Matter
Av Peter Gay
Inbunden, 2015
860 kr
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A renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to themWith his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he …
Party of Humanity
Av Peter Gay
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one …
Enlightenment Volume 2
Av Peter Gay
E-bok, 2013
192 kr
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The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay''s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes'' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment''s …
Party of Humanity
Essays in the French Enlightenment
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1971
309 kr
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The nine related essays in The Party of Humanity fall into three divisions: three are on Voltaire, presenting the great philosophe as a tough-minded, realistic man of letters who tried to reshape his world, rather than as a merely brittle and shallow wit. Then, three essays discuss the French …
Modernism
The Lure of Heresy
Av Peter Gay
Inbunden, 2007
339 kr
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Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay …
Style in History
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1989
287 kr
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What does an historian’s style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt—great historians who were also great stylists—Peter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is …
Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1994
471 kr
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Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much …
Enlightenment
The Science of Freedom
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1996
478 kr
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The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's …
Naked Heart
The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1996
368 kr
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At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport."Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied …
Pleasure Wars
The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1999
436 kr
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The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and …
Tender Passion
The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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It explores an anxiety-provoking time when the boundaries between erotic expressiveness and reserve began to give way, changing the experience of love. "One of the major historical enterprises of the decade. . . . An enterprise requiring a daring and breadth of knowledge possessed by few other …
Education of the Senses
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 1999
412 kr
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Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.
Schnitzler's Century
The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 2002
324 kr
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An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his …
Savage Reprisals
Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Av Peter Gay
Häftad, 2003
296 kr
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Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel.Typically, readers believe that fiction, …
