Thomas W Laqueur
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 194975 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas W Laqueur |
| NOMBRES | Thomas W |
| APELLIDO | Laqueur |
| FIRMA | LAQUEUR T W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What the Dog Sees
This essay makes the case that the dog’s gaze is an important formal element in Western art in the ways in which it makes elements of a picture come together, visually and narratively. As a doppelgänger for the artist and for the viewer, the dog comes to represent the affective power of being seen
John Dixon Walsh (1927-2022)
Journal Article John Dixon Walsh (1927–2022): an appreciation Get access Thomas W Laqueur Thomas W Laqueur University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, dbad021, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbad021 Published: 17 November 2023
Making Space for the Dead
Reviewed by: Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 by Erin-Marie Legacey Thomas W. Laqueur Erin-Marie Legacey. Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 216 pp. Ill. $36.95 (978-1-5017-1559-4). This well-written, well-researched, and revelatory book is, in one register, about the dead bodies of…
Jesuit Kaddish and I
James Bernauer’s Jesuit Kaddish about Jews and Jesuits in the shadow of the Holocaust is not a work of ordinary secular history. It is grounded in two distinctly Jesuit spiritual practices. This essay grapples with how to translate so avowedly Jesuit an account into a more universal one. It uses this work to think about how one might use its insights to think in more secular terms about the great wrong that haunts America: the legacy of racism. F…
Michael Sappol. Body Modern
I am reminded in reading this brilliant and original book of a quote from the philosopher Nelson Goodman. “That nature imitates art,” he says “is too timid a dictum. Nature is a product of art and discourse” (Languages of Art, p.33). For nature substitute “the modern self,” hopelessly striving for coherence in a world of endless change and an overwhelming abundance of images screaming at us from every epistemic direction. For “art and discourse” …
From Empire to Humanity
Global humanitarianism, and more generally, the idea of universal moral responsibility, has its origins in the eighteenth-century British North American empire and so did the contradictions that would haunt it from then to now. Amanda B. Moniz does a lovely job of telling this story in detail from the 1750s to the early nineteenth century, with a brief epilogue that takes readers to the present. In the beginning were men-on-the-move across the va…
The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century
This article rehearses the claim that, as a consequence of political, cultural, and epistemological changes, the sexes came in the eighteenth century to be ordered as two opposite sexes rather hierarchically ordered versions of one. It connects this change to the advent of masturbation as a great moral problem by arguing that both reflect a still more major shift: sexual pleasure and the whole gigantic apparatus of desires, institutions, and rest…
The Deep Time of the Dead
This essay is about the anthropology of the dead body in deep time and about its work in particular places at particular times. I offer an exemplary case of how anthropological claims are translated into the work of the dead in ways that have little to do with, or are even contrary to, specific beliefs about status of the body, the soul, and afterlife and a great deal to do with the kind of anthropological claims I have been making
Sexuality and the Transformation of Culture
In the USA today, the election of gay bishops threatens to bring about a schism in the Episcopalian Church. This article asks questions about the extraordinary importance attached to matters sexual, both historically and in the present. Laqueur's anthropological answer to this broad question is that it is connected with a long and divergent tradition of thinking about the origins of culture. Sex and death, he says, organize the work of making cul…
Roy Porter, 1946-2002 A critical appreciation
Sex in the Flesh
This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the "one-sex model." There are three reasons for this: a considerable amount of such evidence had long been available; stray observations do not discredit worldviews; and new supporting evidence for the one-sex model was also available. Moreover, illustrations in the purportedly pa…
The Moral Imagination and Human Rights
Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science. Lesley Dean-Jones
CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War
London Chartism 1838-1848 . David Goodway The Question of Class Struggle
The Queen Caroline Affair
Literacy and the Social Order
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Class and Culture in Recent Anglo-American Religious Historiography
Science for the People
Debate Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution in England
Journal Article DEBATE LITERACY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND Get access Thomas W. Laqueur Thomas W. Laqueur University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 64, Issue 1, August 1974, Pages 96–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/64.1.96 Published: 01 August 1974
English and French Education in the Nineteenth Century
The Queen Caroline Affair
Sexuality and the Transformation of Culture
In the USA today, the election of gay bishops threatens to bring about a schism in the Episcopalian Church. This article asks questions about the extraordinary importance attached to matters sexual, both historically and in the present. Laqueur's anthropological answer to this broad question is that it is connected with a long and divergent tradition of thinking about the origins of culture. Sex and death, he says, organize the work of making cul…
Sex in the Flesh
This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the "one-sex model." There are three reasons for this: a considerable amount of such evidence had long been available; stray observations do not discredit worldviews; and new supporting evidence for the one-sex model was also available. Moreover, illustrations in the purportedly pa…
The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century
This article rehearses the claim that, as a consequence of political, cultural, and epistemological changes, the sexes came in the eighteenth century to be ordered as two opposite sexes rather hierarchically ordered versions of one. It connects this change to the advent of masturbation as a great moral problem by arguing that both reflect a still more major shift: sexual pleasure and the whole gigantic apparatus of desires, institutions, and rest…
The Deep Time of the Dead
This essay is about the anthropology of the dead body in deep time and about its work in particular places at particular times. I offer an exemplary case of how anthropological claims are translated into the work of the dead in ways that have little to do with, or are even contrary to, specific beliefs about status of the body, the soul, and afterlife and a great deal to do with the kind of anthropological claims I have been making
Debate Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution in England
Journal Article DEBATE LITERACY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND Get access Thomas W. Laqueur Thomas W. Laqueur University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 64, Issue 1, August 1974, Pages 96–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/64.1.96 Published: 01 August 1974
English and French Education in the Nineteenth Century
English and French Education in the Nineteenth Century
Debate Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution in England
Journal Article DEBATE LITERACY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND Get access Thomas W. Laqueur Thomas W. Laqueur University of CaliforniaBerkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 64, Issue 1, August 1974, Pages 96–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/64.1.96 Published: 01 August 1974
Science for the People
Class and Culture in Recent Anglo-American Religious Historiography
Literacy and the Social Order
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Queen Caroline Affair
London Chartism 1838-1848 . David Goodway The Question of Class Struggle
CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War
Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science. Lesley Dean-Jones
The Moral Imagination and Human Rights
Sex in the Flesh
This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the "one-sex model." There are three reasons for this: a considerable amount of such evidence had long been available; stray observations do not discredit worldviews; and new supporting evidence for the one-sex model was also available. Moreover, illustrations in the purportedly pa…
Roy Porter, 1946-2002 A critical appreciation
Sexuality and the Transformation of Culture
In the USA today, the election of gay bishops threatens to bring about a schism in the Episcopalian Church. This article asks questions about the extraordinary importance attached to matters sexual, both historically and in the present. Laqueur's anthropological answer to this broad question is that it is connected with a long and divergent tradition of thinking about the origins of culture. Sex and death, he says, organize the work of making cul…
The Deep Time of the Dead
This essay is about the anthropology of the dead body in deep time and about its work in particular places at particular times. I offer an exemplary case of how anthropological claims are translated into the work of the dead in ways that have little to do with, or are even contrary to, specific beliefs about status of the body, the soul, and afterlife and a great deal to do with the kind of anthropological claims I have been making
The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century
This article rehearses the claim that, as a consequence of political, cultural, and epistemological changes, the sexes came in the eighteenth century to be ordered as two opposite sexes rather hierarchically ordered versions of one. It connects this change to the advent of masturbation as a great moral problem by arguing that both reflect a still more major shift: sexual pleasure and the whole gigantic apparatus of desires, institutions, and rest…
From Empire to Humanity
Global humanitarianism, and more generally, the idea of universal moral responsibility, has its origins in the eighteenth-century British North American empire and so did the contradictions that would haunt it from then to now. Amanda B. Moniz does a lovely job of telling this story in detail from the 1750s to the early nineteenth century, with a brief epilogue that takes readers to the present. In the beginning were men-on-the-move across the va…
Michael Sappol. Body Modern
I am reminded in reading this brilliant and original book of a quote from the philosopher Nelson Goodman. “That nature imitates art,” he says “is too timid a dictum. Nature is a product of art and discourse” (Languages of Art, p.33). For nature substitute “the modern self,” hopelessly striving for coherence in a world of endless change and an overwhelming abundance of images screaming at us from every epistemic direction. For “art and discourse” …
Making Space for the Dead
Reviewed by: Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 by Erin-Marie Legacey Thomas W. Laqueur Erin-Marie Legacey. Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 216 pp. Ill. $36.95 (978-1-5017-1559-4). This well-written, well-researched, and revelatory book is, in one register, about the dead bodies of…
Jesuit Kaddish and I
James Bernauer’s Jesuit Kaddish about Jews and Jesuits in the shadow of the Holocaust is not a work of ordinary secular history. It is grounded in two distinctly Jesuit spiritual practices. This essay grapples with how to translate so avowedly Jesuit an account into a more universal one. It uses this work to think about how one might use its insights to think in more secular terms about the great wrong that haunts America: the legacy of racism. F…
John Dixon Walsh (1927-2022)
Journal Article John Dixon Walsh (1927–2022): an appreciation Get access Thomas W Laqueur Thomas W Laqueur University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, dbad021, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbad021 Published: 17 November 2023
What the Dog Sees
This essay makes the case that the dog’s gaze is an important formal element in Western art in the ways in which it makes elements of a picture come together, visually and narratively. As a doppelgänger for the artist and for the viewer, the dog comes to represent the affective power of being seen
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