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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 611

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

Marlen Haushofer: Texte und Kontexte
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Marlen Haushofer: Texte und Kontexte

Marlen Haushofer ist eine der bedeutendsten österreichischen Autorinnen der Nachkriegsgeneration und mit einiger Verzögerung inzwischen als solche anerkannt. Ihrem Werk – den fünf Romanen sowie einer Reihe von Erzählungen und Kinderbüchern – widmen sich in diesem Buch zehn ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten, die Haushofers Themen und Kontexte mit perspektivischer Vielfalt ausleuchten. Der Roman Die Wand hat seit seinem Erscheinen ein breites internationales Echo und mehrere Wiederentdeckungen erfahren. Als narratives Lockdown-Experiment ist er aktueller denn je. Auch das übrige Werk der Autorin ist ästhetisch bemerkenswert und rezeptionsgeschichtlich aufschlussreich. Zu Haushofers zentralen Themen zählen die Vertreibung aus dem prekären Paradies der Kindheit und das Fortwirken der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit. In formaler Hinsicht erweisen sich die perspektivische Beschränkung auf die Erlebniswelt ihrer Figuren und die Präsenz phantastischer und märchenhafter Elemente als Konstanten.

The Draw of the Alps
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Draw of the Alps

The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically wi...

Landmarks in German Women's Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Landmarks in German Women's Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This volume focuses on twelve women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day who have made a major contribution to German literature. The essays place the writers in the context of their period and examine how their position as women affected what they wrote and the reception of their texts.

Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany

"Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by left-wing and socially critical women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres. Women's experiences and opportunities in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) were shaped by tensions between advances in women's rights and widespread adherence to conservative notions of gender roles and women's maternal duty. This book explores these tensions, which were particularly pronounced on the political left, by analyzing socialist and socially critical women writers' interventions in contemporary debates on gender and women's role in society. For women in Weimar Germany, writing r...

Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this bold and innovative new work, Adrian Moore poses the question of whether it is possible for ethical thinking to be grounded in pure reason. In order to understand and answer this question, he takes a refreshing and challenging look at Kant’s moral and religious philosophy. Identifying three Kantian Themes – morality, freedom and religion – and presenting variations on each of these themes in turn, Moore concedes that there are difficulties with the Kantian view that morality can be governed by ‘pure’ reason. He does however defend a closely related view involving a notion of reason as socially and culturally conditioned. In the course of doing this, Moore considers in detail, ideas at the heart of Kant’s thought, such as the categorical imperative, free will, evil, hope, eternal life and God. He also makes creative use of the ideas in contemporary philosophy, both within the analytic tradition and outside it, such as ‘thick’ ethical concepts, forms of life and ‘becoming those that we are’. Throughout the book, a guiding precept is that to be rational is to make sense, and that nothing is of greater value to use than making sense.

Xenophon: Anabasis Book III
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Xenophon: Anabasis Book III

First comprehensive commentary on a section of Anabasis in English for a century, reflecting scholarly advances for students and scholars.

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol.1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol.1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-10-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

Entangled Future Im/mobilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Entangled Future Im/mobilities

How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 804

Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The fourth century author Xenophon -- historian, philosopher, man of action – produced an output notable for diversity of content and consistency of moral outlook. This book explores some of the ethical and historical dimensions of this oeuvre.