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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity : Historical Essays In European Thought And Culture

  • Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity : Historical Essays In European Thought And Culture

  • Title

    • Cultural Sitings

  • Attribution

    introduced and edited by Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle

  • Publication Details

    Book, Stanford University Press, 2000

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      (LOWER LEVEL)  D424 .E55 2000         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of inquiry as social history, the history of mentalit (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • Issued as a testimonial volume in honor of Peter Gay
    • Many essays were presented as lectures at a conference in Professor Gay’s honor at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., Oct. 2-3, 1998

  • Contents

    • 1. Peter Gay: A Life in History / Robert L. Dietle and Mark S. Micale
    • Pt. I. The Enlightenment and Its Heritages. 2. Thomas Hobbes’s Changing Conception of Civil Science / Quentin Skinner. 3. Wisdom at the Expense of the Dead: Thinking about History in the French Enlightenment / Harry C. Payne. 4. A Provincial Doctor Faces the Paris Establishment: Philippe Pinel, 1778-1793 / Dora B. Weiner. 5. "Philosophical Sex": Pornography in Old Regime France / Robert Darnton
    • Pt. II. Mind and Culture in the Victorian Middle Classes. 6. Miracles in English Unitarian Thought / R. K. Webb. 7. The Cardinal’s Brother: Francis Newman, Victorian Bourgeois / W. F. Bynum. 8. The Bourgeois Experience as Political Culture: The Chamberlains of Birmingham / David Cannadine
    • Pt. III. European Cultural Modernism. 9. Building Historical and Cultural Identities in a Modernist Frame: Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Bauakademie in Context / John E. Toews. 10. The European Modernist as Anglican Moralist: The Later Social Criticism of T. S. Eliot / Stefan Collini. 11. Celine and the Cultivation of Hatred / Jay Winter. 12. Modern and Postmodern Paganism: Peter Gay and Jean-Francois Lyotard / Martin Jay
    • Pt. IV. Culture, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany. 13. Paradoxes of Censorship in Modern Germany / Peter Jelavich. 14. The Creation of Wilhelm Busch as a German Cultural Hero, 1902-1908 / Thomas A. Kohut. 15. When the Ordinary Became Extraordinary: German Jews Reacting to Nazi Persecution, 1933-1939 / Marion A. Kaplan
    • Pt. V. Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. 16. Opposite the Pantheon: Fantasy about a Picture Postcard Sent by Sigmund Freud / Ilse Grubrich-Simitis. 17. Retrogression: Helene Deutsch’s Account of the "Dark Continent" / Judith M. Hughes. 18. A Stoic Death: Sigmund Freud, Max Schur, and Assisted Dying in Contemporary America / Peter Loewenberg

  • ISBN

    • 0804731179
    • 0804731160

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