Sigmund Freud

Peter Gay

Civilization and its discontents

A study of German culture between the two wars, this book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Includes a new Introduction. 16 illustrations.

Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, and other art forms and profiling key figures.

The Lure of Heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

Modernism

A thorough biographical portrait of the pivotal thinker and practitioner probes many aspects of Freud's life, including his family, his city, his professional challenges, and his innovative and controversial theories.

Freud: A Life for Our Time

The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern world—the Age of Reason.

An Interpretation. The science of freedom

The Enlightenment

James Strachey

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

Style in History

Presents a biography of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer.

Mozart

John Arthur Garraty

The editors took on the task to edit a large history of the world covering "everything" of historical importance from the birth of the universe down to the present day of the publication of this text.

The Columbia History of the World

The Outsider as Insider

Weimar Culture

A collection of essays dealing with the integration of Jewish intellectuals in German culture and society during the 19th-20th centuries, and the self-hatred expressed by some of them. The introduction surveys 19th-century antisemitism in Germany, raising the question whether it should be considered an opening phase of the Holocaust. Discusses the ambivalent relations between Wagner and the Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, and the contribution of Max Liebermann (whose Jewish origins were emphasized by art critics) to modern art.

Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture

Freud, Jews, and Other Germans

Robert Kiefer Webb

Modern Europe: Since 1815

Great Ages of Man Age of Enlightenment

Documents the extraordinary rise of the middle class by focusing on Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler, who defined the mores of the nineteenth century, and challenges the many theories from such intellectual innovators as Darwin and Freud, presenting a century filled with science and superstition, revolutionaries and reactionaries, and eros and anxiety. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.

Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

Presented to Arthur M. Wilson

Eighteenth Century Studies

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles. 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 Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike.

A brief text with illustrations offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, philosophical, social, and artistic movements of the eighteenth century.

Age of Enlightenment

Gay presents a series of essays ranging from reflections on Freud and Shakespeare to Gay's controversial spoof review of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

Reading Freud. Explorations & Entertainments

Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father.

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