J Edgar Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Edgar Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Edgar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Un Eteroclito Babuino: On Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the Infinitization of the Sexes
Giordano Bruno (Nola 1548 - Rome 1600) published in 1582 Candelaio, a comedy that anticipates the core arguments he developed in the six dialogs written in volgare during the philosopher's stay in England (1583-1585). In the comedy, the term candelaio (candlebearer) is deployed not only as a trope for light and illumination, but also as a slang designation for sodomite. Thus, sexual dissident Bonifacio, the tragicomic personage to which the title…
Intersexual Variabilities and Phallic Restorations: Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud as Detractors of Magnus Hirschfeld
In 1903, young Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger (1880–1903) published Geschlecht und Charakter. Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung (literally: Sex and Character. A Principled Investigation), in which he maintained that the conception of “permanent bisexuality” he advanced was completely new. His claims were challenged in 1906 by physician Wilhelm Fließ (1858–1928), who referred to his elaborations on the issue in a treatise published in 1897. The …
Love's Body and the Body of Love: On Norman O. Brown's Eschatological Hermaphrodite and the Darwinian Continuities of Nature
US-American philosopher Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was one of the very few twentieth-century intellectuals to situate hermaphroditism at the core of their work. Although Brown's publications became cult books of the then emerging protest subcultures and were eventually regarded as milestones in the history of Freudian revisionism, the reception of his views on hermaphroditism has been insubstantial. The present contribution focuses at first on B…
On Behalf of Hermaphrodites and Mongrels: Refocusing the Reception of Magnus Hirschfeld's Critical Thought on Sexuality and Race
German-Jewish physician, sexologist and critical race theorist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was arguably one of the most significant sexual thinkers of the twentieth century and a renowned sexual minority rights advocate. Hirschfeld's sexual-emancipatory engagement has been widely acknowledged. But his groundbreaking universalization of sexual intermediariness and the resulting dissolution of binary, triadic or otherwise finite schemes of sexual…
Richmond Barthé: Black Homoeroticism and the Raptures of the Hermaphroditic Body
African American sculptor Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) conjoined issues of sexuality and race in works that foreground the aesthetic worth of Black bodies. While exposing Western figuration practices that exclude Black people from artistic visibility, Barthé also targeted the African American distaste for the explicit treatment of nudity. Barthé's androgynous sculptures have by now become the trademark of his art, but Barthésian scholarship still …
H irschfeld, M agnus
German Jewish sexologist and sexual minority rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) challenged the age‐old binary scheme of sexual distribution on the basis of Darwinian evolution theory. As the epistemic kernel of his work, Hirschfeld postulated the “doctrine of sexual intermediary stages,” asserting that human beings are neither man nor woman, but, at the same time, man and woman in unique and thus unrepeatable proportions. Adopting a “b…
Romantic Love
The concept of “Romantic love” denotes the historically determinable form of close bonding that emerged in the early nineteenth century as a modern emulation of the medieval Occitan troubadour tradition, and remained influential as a critical alternative to bourgeois marriage well after the societal consolidation of Victorian ideology. In his “philosophical history” of love, Irving Singer suggests that the worldview in which Romantic love was emb…
B oas, F ranz
Generally regarded as the founder of American anthropology, Franz Boas (1858–1942) was an advocator of cultural relativism, the understanding of cultures as “individual phenomena,” and the de‐hierarchization of races. Among his most significant publications are The Mind of Primitive Man (1965/1911) and Race, Language and Culture (1966/1940), a selection of essays and studies covering the period between 1887 and 1939. A leading expert in the cultu…
M ontesquieu, C harles‐ L ouis de S econdat, B aron de
Charles‐Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French political thinker and writer who anticipated sociology and cultural anthropology. His epistolary novel Lettres persanes [Persian letters] (1721) and his chief work De l'Esprit des loix [On the spirit of the laws] (1748) belong to the classic corpus of writings published during the Enlightenment. Mostly known for his theory of the separation of powers in the st…
Gender Identity
Given the possible discrepancy between the culturally conditioned gender of an individual and his or her biological sex assigned at birth, gender identity refers to the individual's self‐understanding as being male, female, or otherwise, without positing any necessary nexus to the initial sexual assignment. Widely deployed in contexts that describe the complex self‐perception of individuals who elude subsumption under heteronormative categories, …
M ead, M argaret
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1976) was mentored by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict in the early stages of her career. She eventually became a leading authority in her field, an inspiring influence on the feminist and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s, and one of the preeminent women intellectuals in American history. Among her most relevant early publications are Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Pr…
The Freak of Nature: "On Erich Fromm's Vindication of Binomial Sexuality and the Potentials of the "Homosexual Deviation
As a Freudian revisionist and neo-Marxist, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) lessened the import of sexuality in the individual psyche but stressed the role played by the sex differential in the distribution of power throughout history and in the post-patriarchal form of matriarchy he envisioned. Seeking to reinforce the male/female divide and heteronormativity, Fromm outlined a "New Science of Man" that readily ignored not only the challenges posed to bin…
On the Transgressiveness of Ambiguity: Richard Bruce Nugent and the Flow of Sexuality and Race
The study focuses on the slender corpus of literary work by Harlem Renaissance poet, author and visual artist Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987), arguably America's foremost Black aesthete. As an individualist in the footsteps of post-Hegelian and pre-Nietzschean philosopher Max Stirner (1806-1856), Nugent sought to re-think sexuality and race beyond fixed schemes of categorial distribution. To this end, Nugent deployed a strategy of sexual and rac…
On the Nameless Love and Infinite Sexualities: John Henry Mackay, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of the Sexual Emancipation Movement
Two prominent representatives of the sexual emancipation movement in Germany, John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) launched significant attacks on sexual binarism and its combinatories. Although Mackay defended the nameless love against seminal Christian and subsequent secularised misconstructions of its nature, he was unable to overcome the fundamental scheme of binomic sexuality. Hirschfeld, however, resolved the theo…
On the Nameless Love and Infinite Sexualities: John Henry Mackay, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of the Sexual Emancipation Movement
Two prominent representatives of the sexual emancipation movement in Germany, John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) launched significant attacks on sexual binarism and its combinatories. Although Mackay defended the nameless love against seminal Christian and subsequent secularised misconstructions of its nature, he was unable to overcome the fundamental scheme of binomic sexuality. Hirschfeld, however, resolved the theo…
On the Transgressiveness of Ambiguity: Richard Bruce Nugent and the Flow of Sexuality and Race
The study focuses on the slender corpus of literary work by Harlem Renaissance poet, author and visual artist Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987), arguably America's foremost Black aesthete. As an individualist in the footsteps of post-Hegelian and pre-Nietzschean philosopher Max Stirner (1806-1856), Nugent sought to re-think sexuality and race beyond fixed schemes of categorial distribution. To this end, Nugent deployed a strategy of sexual and rac…
On the Nameless Love and Infinite Sexualities: John Henry Mackay, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of the Sexual Emancipation Movement
Two prominent representatives of the sexual emancipation movement in Germany, John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) launched significant attacks on sexual binarism and its combinatories. Although Mackay defended the nameless love against seminal Christian and subsequent secularised misconstructions of its nature, he was unable to overcome the fundamental scheme of binomic sexuality. Hirschfeld, however, resolved the theo…
On the Transgressiveness of Ambiguity: Richard Bruce Nugent and the Flow of Sexuality and Race
The study focuses on the slender corpus of literary work by Harlem Renaissance poet, author and visual artist Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987), arguably America's foremost Black aesthete. As an individualist in the footsteps of post-Hegelian and pre-Nietzschean philosopher Max Stirner (1806-1856), Nugent sought to re-think sexuality and race beyond fixed schemes of categorial distribution. To this end, Nugent deployed a strategy of sexual and rac…
H irschfeld, M agnus
German Jewish sexologist and sexual minority rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) challenged the age‐old binary scheme of sexual distribution on the basis of Darwinian evolution theory. As the epistemic kernel of his work, Hirschfeld postulated the “doctrine of sexual intermediary stages,” asserting that human beings are neither man nor woman, but, at the same time, man and woman in unique and thus unrepeatable proportions. Adopting a “b…
Romantic Love
The concept of “Romantic love” denotes the historically determinable form of close bonding that emerged in the early nineteenth century as a modern emulation of the medieval Occitan troubadour tradition, and remained influential as a critical alternative to bourgeois marriage well after the societal consolidation of Victorian ideology. In his “philosophical history” of love, Irving Singer suggests that the worldview in which Romantic love was emb…
B oas, F ranz
Generally regarded as the founder of American anthropology, Franz Boas (1858–1942) was an advocator of cultural relativism, the understanding of cultures as “individual phenomena,” and the de‐hierarchization of races. Among his most significant publications are The Mind of Primitive Man (1965/1911) and Race, Language and Culture (1966/1940), a selection of essays and studies covering the period between 1887 and 1939. A leading expert in the cultu…
M ontesquieu, C harles‐ L ouis de S econdat, B aron de
Charles‐Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French political thinker and writer who anticipated sociology and cultural anthropology. His epistolary novel Lettres persanes [Persian letters] (1721) and his chief work De l'Esprit des loix [On the spirit of the laws] (1748) belong to the classic corpus of writings published during the Enlightenment. Mostly known for his theory of the separation of powers in the st…
Gender Identity
Given the possible discrepancy between the culturally conditioned gender of an individual and his or her biological sex assigned at birth, gender identity refers to the individual's self‐understanding as being male, female, or otherwise, without positing any necessary nexus to the initial sexual assignment. Widely deployed in contexts that describe the complex self‐perception of individuals who elude subsumption under heteronormative categories, …
M ead, M argaret
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1976) was mentored by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict in the early stages of her career. She eventually became a leading authority in her field, an inspiring influence on the feminist and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s, and one of the preeminent women intellectuals in American history. Among her most relevant early publications are Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Pr…
The Freak of Nature: "On Erich Fromm's Vindication of Binomial Sexuality and the Potentials of the "Homosexual Deviation
As a Freudian revisionist and neo-Marxist, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) lessened the import of sexuality in the individual psyche but stressed the role played by the sex differential in the distribution of power throughout history and in the post-patriarchal form of matriarchy he envisioned. Seeking to reinforce the male/female divide and heteronormativity, Fromm outlined a "New Science of Man" that readily ignored not only the challenges posed to bin…
Richmond Barthé: Black Homoeroticism and the Raptures of the Hermaphroditic Body
African American sculptor Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) conjoined issues of sexuality and race in works that foreground the aesthetic worth of Black bodies. While exposing Western figuration practices that exclude Black people from artistic visibility, Barthé also targeted the African American distaste for the explicit treatment of nudity. Barthé's androgynous sculptures have by now become the trademark of his art, but Barthésian scholarship still …
On Behalf of Hermaphrodites and Mongrels: Refocusing the Reception of Magnus Hirschfeld's Critical Thought on Sexuality and Race
German-Jewish physician, sexologist and critical race theorist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was arguably one of the most significant sexual thinkers of the twentieth century and a renowned sexual minority rights advocate. Hirschfeld's sexual-emancipatory engagement has been widely acknowledged. But his groundbreaking universalization of sexual intermediariness and the resulting dissolution of binary, triadic or otherwise finite schemes of sexual…
Love's Body and the Body of Love: On Norman O. Brown's Eschatological Hermaphrodite and the Darwinian Continuities of Nature
US-American philosopher Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was one of the very few twentieth-century intellectuals to situate hermaphroditism at the core of their work. Although Brown's publications became cult books of the then emerging protest subcultures and were eventually regarded as milestones in the history of Freudian revisionism, the reception of his views on hermaphroditism has been insubstantial. The present contribution focuses at first on B…
Intersexual Variabilities and Phallic Restorations: Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud as Detractors of Magnus Hirschfeld
In 1903, young Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger (1880–1903) published Geschlecht und Charakter. Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung (literally: Sex and Character. A Principled Investigation), in which he maintained that the conception of “permanent bisexuality” he advanced was completely new. His claims were challenged in 1906 by physician Wilhelm Fließ (1858–1928), who referred to his elaborations on the issue in a treatise published in 1897. The …
Un Eteroclito Babuino: On Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the Infinitization of the Sexes
Giordano Bruno (Nola 1548 - Rome 1600) published in 1582 Candelaio, a comedy that anticipates the core arguments he developed in the six dialogs written in volgare during the philosopher's stay in England (1583-1585). In the comedy, the term candelaio (candlebearer) is deployed not only as a trope for light and illumination, but also as a slang designation for sodomite. Thus, sexual dissident Bonifacio, the tragicomic personage to which the title…
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Human sexuality (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works)