Thomas Walter Laqueur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Walter Laqueur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Laqueur |
| SIGNATURE | LAQUEUR T W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Work of the Dead
The work of the dead
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matte…
La fabrique du sexe
L’Occident n’a cessé depuis les origines de s’interroger sur la différence des sexes. Mais parle-t-on de l’homme et de la femme que l’on a encore rien dit : se réfère-t-on au genre définition culturelle par des qualités morales, affectives, sociales... ou au sexe définition par des spécificités anatomiques ? Jamais, en effet, les deux notions ne se recouvrirent. Dès l’Antiquité, Aristote, par la définition de l’ordre des êtres, et Galien, par la …
Sexo Solitario
Response to Section I
Response to Section I:Dis-ability Thomas W. Laqueur (bio) These essays move from the particular to the cosmic with vertiginous speed. Tobin Siebers's essay is the most leisurely and, so I thought at first, least threatening; it begins by announcing its subject as passing and moves to an engagement with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the epistemology of the closet—the ways in which the disability closet is, and is not, like that of homosexuality. Almost…
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Introduction by Amy Gutmann vii HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY by Michael Ignatieff Human Rights as Politics 3 Human Rights as Idolatry 53 COMMENTS Grounding Human Rights by K. Anthony Appiah 101 Debates with the PTA and Others by David A. Hollinger 117 The Moral Imagination and Human Rights by Thomas W. Laqueur 127 Relativism and Religion by Diane F. Orentlicher 141 RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS by Michael Ignatieff Dignity and Agency 161 Cont…
Reinventing the Sexes
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Making Sex
Class and Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Religion and Respectability
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Religion and Respectability
Class and Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Making Sex
Reinventing the Sexes
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Introduction by Amy Gutmann vii HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY by Michael Ignatieff Human Rights as Politics 3 Human Rights as Idolatry 53 COMMENTS Grounding Human Rights by K. Anthony Appiah 101 Debates with the PTA and Others by David A. Hollinger 117 The Moral Imagination and Human Rights by Thomas W. Laqueur 127 Relativism and Religion by Diane F. Orentlicher 141 RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS by Michael Ignatieff Dignity and Agency 161 Cont…
Response to Section I
Response to Section I:Dis-ability Thomas W. Laqueur (bio) These essays move from the particular to the cosmic with vertiginous speed. Tobin Siebers's essay is the most leisurely and, so I thought at first, least threatening; it begins by announcing its subject as passing and moves to an engagement with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the epistemology of the closet—the ways in which the disability closet is, and is not, like that of homosexuality. Almost…
La fabrique du sexe
L’Occident n’a cessé depuis les origines de s’interroger sur la différence des sexes. Mais parle-t-on de l’homme et de la femme que l’on a encore rien dit : se réfère-t-on au genre définition culturelle par des qualités morales, affectives, sociales... ou au sexe définition par des spécificités anatomiques ? Jamais, en effet, les deux notions ne se recouvrirent. Dès l’Antiquité, Aristote, par la définition de l’ordre des êtres, et Galien, par la …
Sexo Solitario
The Work of the Dead
The work of the dead
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matte…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Death (2 works)