D L Lemahieu
Biographic Data
| ID | 284665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D L Lemahieu |
| GIVEN NAMES | D L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemahieu |
| SIGNATURE | LEMAHIEU D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lake Forest College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3046-4813 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Biography across the Digitized Globe
Laura Carter. Histories of Everyday Life
For historians of a certain generation, E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class created a new social history that illuminated the neglected lives of ordinary people. Like others on the New Left, Thompson excavated a hidden past that shaped the scholarly agenda for years to come. In Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979, Laura Carter acknowledges the centrality of these partisan his…
Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene
This essay argues for the relevance of Theodor Adorno to life writing in the Anthropocene. His view of instrumental reason predicted the despoliation of the earth. His own memoir, Minima Moralia, radically decentred the individual voice by proclaiming its hopeless entanglement in exchange values. His negative dialectics reconceived Cartesian Dualism and destabilised relational models of life narration. Adorno’s view of memory contested its object…
Eric Sevareid and the Emotional Registers of Liberal Masculinity
A major broadcaster on both radio and television, Eric Sevareid published a memoir of his youth and wartime experiences in 1946. Not So Wild a Dream devoted considerable attention to the complicated emotional registers of male identity. The tensions between physical and mental labour, the revelation or concealment of personal feelings and the relationship between individual autonomy and community responsibility suffused Sevareid's recollections o…
British Academic Life Writing and Meritocratic Virtue
If British academic memoirs disclosed the personal origins of professional careers, they also became themselves intellectual performances subject to critical disciplinary judgment. Ambiguity, irony, and other literary devices artfully retrieved the crosscurrents of past experience, but they also created a logic of simultaneity that allowed academics to resolve incompatibilities about themselves and their careers
Niall O’Flaherty. Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
This admirable study revises our understanding of an important but neglected thinker. In Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment, Niall O’Flaherty demonstrates how William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, first published in 1785, synthesized and invigorated the tradition of theological utilitarianism that, combined with its secular version elaborated by Jeremy Bentham, deeply influenced the nineteenth century. O’Flaherty f…
Philosophy and Life Writing
The fertile conjunction of philosophy and life writing generates many possibilities for study: the relationship between conceptual abstractions and the subjectivities of the philosophers who create
The Rise of the Memoir
This work offers close, often brilliant readings of the life writing of seven figures, mostly in the twentieth century. Zwerdling understands the familiar problems of defining the genre and unravel
Life Writing and Philosophy
An independent man of letters in an era of professional philosophers, Bryan Magee wrote extensively about the personal origins of his philosophic interests and activities. The emotions and subjectivities of his early years helped shape a polymath whose deep absorption in culture and compulsive need to communicate created a unique figure in modern Britain. This article analyses Magee’s personal narratives of both isolation and connection. It shows…
Being-Here
Scholarship Boys” in Twilight
The memoirs of six “scholarship boys”—Richard Hoggart, Frank Kermode, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Perkin, A. H. Halsey, and Brian Magee—reveal the deeply varied experience of academically gifted working- and lower-middle-class males in the twentieth century. The arc from social outsider to cultural prominence drew upon a commitment to humanism acquired in their youth. Scholarship boys navigated the crosscurrents of post-industrial culture in many ways …
Lost Fathers
This essay explores the complex role of fathers and father figures in the life and writings of Raymond Williams. First, as Williams later acknowledged, the moving portrait of Harry Price, the father in Border Country, embodied a partial but revealing autobiographical truth. Second, what Williams later called ‘the two figures of the father’ also applied to his notion of community, the ‘social father’ that helped shape his vision of a socialist fut…
The Projection of Britain
John Grierson and other members of the documentary film movement in Britain were masters of myth-making and self-promotion. From their beginning in the 1920s and throughout the following decades, they generated an enormous amount of highly articulate, self-referential criticism that routinely exaggerated the aesthetic merit and social impact of their films. Setting themselves apart from Hollywood and the commercial film industry in Britain, they …
The History of British and American Sport. A Review Article
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Imagined contemporaries
A Culture for Democracy
CSSH Notes
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The Media in Britain
The Origins of the Advertising Business
The Gramophone
development and rapid diffusion of the gramophone in the late 19th and early 20th centuries offered a historically unique opportunity for serious musicians and their audiences. Phonograph records made permanent what previously was ephemeral. Formerly, the artist was haunted by the knowledge that with him his music must vanish into the unknown, Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote in his essay, The Artist and the Gramophone, yet today he can leave behind him…
Malthus and the Theology of Scarcity
The Honest Mind
Paley
Penguin Books and Political Change
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988." Cultural and Social History, 18(4), pp. 605–606
Scholarship Boys” in Twilight
The memoirs of six “scholarship boys”—Richard Hoggart, Frank Kermode, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Perkin, A. H. Halsey, and Brian Magee—reveal the deeply varied experience of academically gifted working- and lower-middle-class males in the twentieth century. The arc from social outsider to cultural prominence drew upon a commitment to humanism acquired in their youth. Scholarship boys navigated the crosscurrents of post-industrial culture in many ways …
The Gramophone
development and rapid diffusion of the gramophone in the late 19th and early 20th centuries offered a historically unique opportunity for serious musicians and their audiences. Phonograph records made permanent what previously was ephemeral. Formerly, the artist was haunted by the knowledge that with him his music must vanish into the unknown, Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote in his essay, The Artist and the Gramophone, yet today he can leave behind him…
Malthus and the Theology of Scarcity
Paley
Imagined contemporaries
Paley
The Honest Mind
Malthus and the Theology of Scarcity
The Gramophone
development and rapid diffusion of the gramophone in the late 19th and early 20th centuries offered a historically unique opportunity for serious musicians and their audiences. Phonograph records made permanent what previously was ephemeral. Formerly, the artist was haunted by the knowledge that with him his music must vanish into the unknown, Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote in his essay, The Artist and the Gramophone, yet today he can leave behind him…
The Origins of the Advertising Business
The Media in Britain
CSSH Notes
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 History of British and American Sport. A Review Article
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
Imagined contemporaries
A Culture for Democracy
The Projection of Britain
John Grierson and other members of the documentary film movement in Britain were masters of myth-making and self-promotion. From their beginning in the 1920s and throughout the following decades, they generated an enormous amount of highly articulate, self-referential criticism that routinely exaggerated the aesthetic merit and social impact of their films. Setting themselves apart from Hollywood and the commercial film industry in Britain, they …
Lost Fathers
This essay explores the complex role of fathers and father figures in the life and writings of Raymond Williams. First, as Williams later acknowledged, the moving portrait of Harry Price, the father in Border Country, embodied a partial but revealing autobiographical truth. Second, what Williams later called ‘the two figures of the father’ also applied to his notion of community, the ‘social father’ that helped shape his vision of a socialist fut…
Scholarship Boys” in Twilight
The memoirs of six “scholarship boys”—Richard Hoggart, Frank Kermode, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Perkin, A. H. Halsey, and Brian Magee—reveal the deeply varied experience of academically gifted working- and lower-middle-class males in the twentieth century. The arc from social outsider to cultural prominence drew upon a commitment to humanism acquired in their youth. Scholarship boys navigated the crosscurrents of post-industrial culture in many ways …
Being-Here
Life Writing and Philosophy
An independent man of letters in an era of professional philosophers, Bryan Magee wrote extensively about the personal origins of his philosophic interests and activities. The emotions and subjectivities of his early years helped shape a polymath whose deep absorption in culture and compulsive need to communicate created a unique figure in modern Britain. This article analyses Magee’s personal narratives of both isolation and connection. It shows…
The Rise of the Memoir
This work offers close, often brilliant readings of the life writing of seven figures, mostly in the twentieth century. Zwerdling understands the familiar problems of defining the genre and unravel
Philosophy and Life Writing
The fertile conjunction of philosophy and life writing generates many possibilities for study: the relationship between conceptual abstractions and the subjectivities of the philosophers who create
Niall O’Flaherty. Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
This admirable study revises our understanding of an important but neglected thinker. In Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment, Niall O’Flaherty demonstrates how William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, first published in 1785, synthesized and invigorated the tradition of theological utilitarianism that, combined with its secular version elaborated by Jeremy Bentham, deeply influenced the nineteenth century. O’Flaherty f…
Eric Sevareid and the Emotional Registers of Liberal Masculinity
A major broadcaster on both radio and television, Eric Sevareid published a memoir of his youth and wartime experiences in 1946. Not So Wild a Dream devoted considerable attention to the complicated emotional registers of male identity. The tensions between physical and mental labour, the revelation or concealment of personal feelings and the relationship between individual autonomy and community responsibility suffused Sevareid's recollections o…
British Academic Life Writing and Meritocratic Virtue
If British academic memoirs disclosed the personal origins of professional careers, they also became themselves intellectual performances subject to critical disciplinary judgment. Ambiguity, irony, and other literary devices artfully retrieved the crosscurrents of past experience, but they also created a logic of simultaneity that allowed academics to resolve incompatibilities about themselves and their careers
Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene
This essay argues for the relevance of Theodor Adorno to life writing in the Anthropocene. His view of instrumental reason predicted the despoliation of the earth. His own memoir, Minima Moralia, radically decentred the individual voice by proclaiming its hopeless entanglement in exchange values. His negative dialectics reconceived Cartesian Dualism and destabilised relational models of life narration. Adorno’s view of memory contested its object…
Laura Carter. Histories of Everyday Life
For historians of a certain generation, E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class created a new social history that illuminated the neglected lives of ordinary people. Like others on the New Left, Thompson excavated a hidden past that shaped the scholarly agenda for years to come. In Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979, Laura Carter acknowledges the centrality of these partisan his…
Penguin Books and Political Change
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988." Cultural and Social History, 18(4), pp. 605–606
Biography across the Digitized Globe
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