Robert Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5143974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2973-2689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Confessional
Bob Tobin originally wrote this essay in 2000 as the preface to his first book, Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe. At the time, however, only one of the reviewers of the manuscript approved of it, so he decided not to include it in the book. In the summer of 2022, when Bob was struggling with liver cancer, he remembered this essay and expressed his desire to have it published, but it was nowhere to be found in his home or office f…
Queer German Roots of the Alt-Right
Julius Evola, the Italian fascist philosopher who has become a touchstone for far-right thinking throughout the world, has surprising connections to figures in the early German homosexual emancipation movement. From Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, he draws on the idea that men can have female souls and women can have male souls. From Otto Weininger, he adapts the idea of taking this kind of gender inversion and applying it to race. From Hans Blu ̈her, he …
Habsburg Horror
The Austrian Netflix series Freud both critiques and celebrates Austrian culture as it attempts to honor Austrian national identity while also rejecting nationalism. This delicate dance reflects the challenges confronting Netflix as it aspires both to global universalism and cultural specificity. In Freud, the fictional Sigmund Freud teams up with a traumatized war veteran and a beautiful medium to contain the táltos, which represents all the vio…
The Evolian Imagination
According to the French writer Alain de Benoist, Julius Evola's writings ground all major strands of radical-, new-, far- and alt-right thinking in Europe and beyond. His appealingly evocative and romantic vision of the world seems to offer an alternative to the liberal globalization that has left so many dissatisfied. Evola (1898-1974) rose to prominence with the publication of Revolt against the Modern World in 1934, which secured his position …
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s Sutton Katie, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 347. $90. ISBN 978 0 472 13160 0. Robert Deam Tobin Robert Deam Tobin Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
LGBTQ+ Rights after the Report on unalienable Rights
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for and established a Commission on Unalienable Rights in 2019, alarm bells went off for many, especially in LGBTQ+ communities. In its May 20, 2020, submission to the commission, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch indicated that it was particularly concerned that the outcome of the deliberations would “jeopardize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.”1 Give…
Eurovision at 50
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Winckelmann – Homosexualität, schwule Kultur, Queer Theory
Bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten war W. für seine enthusiastische sinnliche Liebe zu jungen Männern bekannt. Seine Veranlagung wurde bemerkenswert offen besprochen, manchmal sogar positiv bewertet, und von Anfang an mit seiner kunsthistorischen Arbeit in Verbindung gebracht. Obwohl W. fast genau einhundert Jahre vor der Einführung des modernen Begriffs »Homosexualität« ermordet wurde, fand er bald Aufnahme in die Reihe berühmter Homosexueller. Noch he…
Peripheral Desires
As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
The Minority VoiceHubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism, 1900-1991
This full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in 20th-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised
Doctor's Orders
Warm Brothers
Anthropology and the German Enlightenment
This volume is a collection of essays on various notions of the human state during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period in Germany. The book includes articles on Madame de Stael, Herder and India, Kant and race, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, Lichtenberg, the Brothers Grimm, and Humboldt
Nietzsche and the Feminine
You are going to women? do not forget whip! This admonition, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, may be most notoriously misogynistic line in all literature and philosophy. It is also only one of many denigrations of women in work of philosopher who has most influenced our century: Friedrich Nietasche. But while Freud's disturbing pronouncements on demininity have received sustained attention, studies of place of in Nietzsche's work are still few and fa…
The Minority VoiceHubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism, 1900-1991
This full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in 20th-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised
The Evolian Imagination
According to the French writer Alain de Benoist, Julius Evola's writings ground all major strands of radical-, new-, far- and alt-right thinking in Europe and beyond. His appealingly evocative and romantic vision of the world seems to offer an alternative to the liberal globalization that has left so many dissatisfied. Evola (1898-1974) rose to prominence with the publication of Revolt against the Modern World in 1934, which secured his position …
Nietzsche and the Feminine
You are going to women? do not forget whip! This admonition, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, may be most notoriously misogynistic line in all literature and philosophy. It is also only one of many denigrations of women in work of philosopher who has most influenced our century: Friedrich Nietasche. But while Freud's disturbing pronouncements on demininity have received sustained attention, studies of place of in Nietzsche's work are still few and fa…
Anthropology and the German Enlightenment
This volume is a collection of essays on various notions of the human state during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period in Germany. The book includes articles on Madame de Stael, Herder and India, Kant and race, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, Lichtenberg, the Brothers Grimm, and Humboldt
Warm Brothers
Doctor's Orders
The Minority VoiceHubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism, 1900-1991
This full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in 20th-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
Peripheral Desires
As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.
Eurovision at 50
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Winckelmann – Homosexualität, schwule Kultur, Queer Theory
Bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten war W. für seine enthusiastische sinnliche Liebe zu jungen Männern bekannt. Seine Veranlagung wurde bemerkenswert offen besprochen, manchmal sogar positiv bewertet, und von Anfang an mit seiner kunsthistorischen Arbeit in Verbindung gebracht. Obwohl W. fast genau einhundert Jahre vor der Einführung des modernen Begriffs »Homosexualität« ermordet wurde, fand er bald Aufnahme in die Reihe berühmter Homosexueller. Noch he…
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s Sutton Katie, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 347. $90. ISBN 978 0 472 13160 0. Robert Deam Tobin Robert Deam Tobin Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
LGBTQ+ Rights after the Report on unalienable Rights
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for and established a Commission on Unalienable Rights in 2019, alarm bells went off for many, especially in LGBTQ+ communities. In its May 20, 2020, submission to the commission, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch indicated that it was particularly concerned that the outcome of the deliberations would “jeopardize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.”1 Give…
The Evolian Imagination
According to the French writer Alain de Benoist, Julius Evola's writings ground all major strands of radical-, new-, far- and alt-right thinking in Europe and beyond. His appealingly evocative and romantic vision of the world seems to offer an alternative to the liberal globalization that has left so many dissatisfied. Evola (1898-1974) rose to prominence with the publication of Revolt against the Modern World in 1934, which secured his position …
Queer German Roots of the Alt-Right
Julius Evola, the Italian fascist philosopher who has become a touchstone for far-right thinking throughout the world, has surprising connections to figures in the early German homosexual emancipation movement. From Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, he draws on the idea that men can have female souls and women can have male souls. From Otto Weininger, he adapts the idea of taking this kind of gender inversion and applying it to race. From Hans Blu ̈her, he …
Habsburg Horror
The Austrian Netflix series Freud both critiques and celebrates Austrian culture as it attempts to honor Austrian national identity while also rejecting nationalism. This delicate dance reflects the challenges confronting Netflix as it aspires both to global universalism and cultural specificity. In Freud, the fictional Sigmund Freud teams up with a traumatized war veteran and a beautiful medium to contain the táltos, which represents all the vio…
Confessional
Bob Tobin originally wrote this essay in 2000 as the preface to his first book, Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe. At the time, however, only one of the reviewers of the manuscript approved of it, so he decided not to include it in the book. In the summer of 2022, when Bob was struggling with liver cancer, he remembered this essay and expressed his desire to have it published, but it was nowhere to be found in his home or office f…
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