Gerald N Izenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald N Izenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald N |
| FAMILY NAME | Izenberg |
| SIGNATURE | IZENBERG G N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition
Three Faces of Freud
Martin Jay. Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory
Reason after Its Eclipse is a closely argued analytical narrative of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the idea of “emancipatory reason” associated with the Frankfurt School, by the scholar who inaugurated the writing of the school’s history and remains its best-known practitioner. The book’s theme was prompted by a question Martin Jay once asked Friedrich Pollock, an original member of the school, whose answer didn’t satisfy him: What did Fran…
Self: The Limits of Autonomy
If one is looking for the authoritative work on the history of the modern Western concept of “self,” the place to go is Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self . It is a wide-ranging, deeply insightful account of Western thinking about the nature of selfhood in Britain, France, and Germany since Descartes, framed by a powerfully argued thesis about the right way to conceptualize it. But that project was driven by what in the retrospect of Seigel's …
Identity Becomes an Issue: European Literature in the 1920s
The meaning of “identity” in its contemporary sense of “who—or what—I am” is of relatively recent vintage. It became current as a concept of individual and group psychology only through Erik Erikson's work in the 1950s and its extension to collectivities in the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. But an important strand of European literature began calling the possibility of fixed self-definition into question in the 1920s, occasionally …
The Self in Question: On Jerrold Seigel's the Idea of the Self
In recent decades, questions surrounding the concept of the “self,” whether by that name or such cognate terms as “subjectivity” or “identity,” have come to occupy a prominent place in historical scholarship, literary and gender studies, social theory and philosophy. Most recently, Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self has provided not only a vast new historical map of this conceptual terrain but a challenging new way of exploring it. My purpose …
The lure of dreams: Sigmund Freud and the construction of modernity
Psychohistory and Intellectual History
The growing significance of psychohistory is evidenced not only by the increasing number of psychohistorical works being published but by the volume of controversy it has generated. Some of the criticism is misplaced or frivolous, stemming largely from historians' fears of having the purity of their discipline contaminated by other disciplines with scientific pretensions and technical jargon. Much of it, however, has been serious and cogent, and …
The Wish to Be Free
Psychohistory and Intellectual History
The growing significance of psychohistory is evidenced not only by the increasing number of psychohistorical works being published but by the volume of controversy it has generated. Some of the criticism is misplaced or frivolous, stemming largely from historians' fears of having the purity of their discipline contaminated by other disciplines with scientific pretensions and technical jargon. Much of it, however, has been serious and cogent, and …
The Wish to Be Free
Psychohistory and Intellectual History
The growing significance of psychohistory is evidenced not only by the increasing number of psychohistorical works being published but by the volume of controversy it has generated. Some of the criticism is misplaced or frivolous, stemming largely from historians' fears of having the purity of their discipline contaminated by other disciplines with scientific pretensions and technical jargon. Much of it, however, has been serious and cogent, and …
The lure of dreams: Sigmund Freud and the construction of modernity
The Self in Question: On Jerrold Seigel's the Idea of the Self
In recent decades, questions surrounding the concept of the “self,” whether by that name or such cognate terms as “subjectivity” or “identity,” have come to occupy a prominent place in historical scholarship, literary and gender studies, social theory and philosophy. Most recently, Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self has provided not only a vast new historical map of this conceptual terrain but a challenging new way of exploring it. My purpose …
Identity Becomes an Issue: European Literature in the 1920s
The meaning of “identity” in its contemporary sense of “who—or what—I am” is of relatively recent vintage. It became current as a concept of individual and group psychology only through Erik Erikson's work in the 1950s and its extension to collectivities in the social and political upheavals of the 1960s. But an important strand of European literature began calling the possibility of fixed self-definition into question in the 1920s, occasionally …
Self: The Limits of Autonomy
If one is looking for the authoritative work on the history of the modern Western concept of “self,” the place to go is Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self . It is a wide-ranging, deeply insightful account of Western thinking about the nature of selfhood in Britain, France, and Germany since Descartes, framed by a powerfully argued thesis about the right way to conceptualize it. But that project was driven by what in the retrospect of Seigel's …
Martin Jay. Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory
Reason after Its Eclipse is a closely argued analytical narrative of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the idea of “emancipatory reason” associated with the Frankfurt School, by the scholar who inaugurated the writing of the school’s history and remains its best-known practitioner. The book’s theme was prompted by a question Martin Jay once asked Friedrich Pollock, an original member of the school, whose answer didn’t satisfy him: What did Fran…
Three Faces of Freud
Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)