Thomas Laqueur

Dados Biográficos

ID323055
NOMEThomas Laqueur
PRENOMESThomas
SOBRENOMELaqueur
ASSINATURALAQUEUR T
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES88
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1973
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • Le « travail des morts » est-il universel et politique

    Open AccessGiulia Lelli, Marine Boisson et al.ARTICLESocio-anthropologie2024

  • The Making of the Modern Body

    Catherine Gallagher, Thomas LaqueurBOOKMaking of the Modern Body2023

  • John Dixon Walsh (1927-2022)

    Open AccessThomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2023

    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

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2021

    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

    Open AccessThomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2021

    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…

  • Can a Dog Really Be a Man’s Best Friend

    Thomas Laqueur, Alexander NehamasARTICLEQui Parle2018

    This essay is an exchange between friends and scholars Thomas Laqueur and Alexander Nehamas. Laqueur offers a number of possible answers to the question “Why is a dog a man’s best friend?” as he explicates and analyzes a varied historical record of archaeological evidence, philosophy, art, and literature. Laqueur builds on Aristotle’s conception of friendship as he explores what types of friendships we humans have with dogs and how such relations…

  • Michael Sappol. Body Modern

    Open AccessThomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEJournal of the History of…2018

    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” …

  • Consistency and Discontinuity

    Open AccessThomas LaqueurARTICLEModern Intellectual History2017Referências: 1

    Marx's Fate begins with a quote from W. B. Yeats, who says that he “often has had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.” There is no one Myth for anyone, including Jerry Seigel, but there is, I think, in his work an “inner sameness and continuity,” as Erik Erikson would put it, which is matched, once we reflect on the matter, by a “continuity of [his] meanin…

  • From Empire to Humanity

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    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…

  • Le destin de l'anatomie

    Thomas Laqueur, Jonathan ChalierARTICLEEsprit2017

    L'historien américain de la sexualité explique que le corps naturel change selon les différentes manières de le décrire : c'est le destin qui fait l'anatomie. La période contemporaine est marquée par l'idéal d'un corps sur mesure pour chacun selon son identité sexuelle

  • The Work of the Dead

    Open AccessThomas Laqueur, Thomas Walter LaqueurBOOKWork of the Dead2015

  • La fabrique du sexe

    Thomas Laqueur, Thomas Walter LaqueurBOOKLa fabrique du sexe2013

    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 …

  • When Medicine Is Powerless

    Open AccessThomas LaqueurARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2013

    An 1897 painting by the 16-year-old Pablo Picasso—Reason and Charity—illustrates the oft-perceived epistemological divide between comforting patients and treating them. In the corner stands a nun holding a child in one arm and offering the patient a drink; in the foreground sits a doctor taking the patient’s pulse and looking at his watch. Physiology is the domain of reason; care the domain of charity. Of course the contrast is overblown, but by …

  • In Memoriam Paul Alpers

    Colleen Gallagher, Catherine Gallagher et al.ARTICLERepresentations2013

    Research Article| November 01 2013 In Memoriam Paul Alpers Catherine Gallagher, Catherine Gallagher Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Greenblatt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Thomas Laqueur, Thomas Laqueur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Randolph Starn Randolph Starn Search for other works by th…

  • The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2012Citada por: 2Referências: 6

    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

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLESocial research2011Citada por: 2

    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

    Open AccessThomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLESexualities2009Citada por: 5Referências: 7

    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…

  • Form in Ashes

    Thomas LaqueurARTICLERepresentations2008Citada por: 1Referências: 1

    This essay explains the advent of modern cremation by how it came to stand in a variety of isomorphic relationships with other cultural practices or political positions. The meanings of this form of disposing of the dead-of rendering corpses quickly into their component parts through combustion in technologically advanced furnaces-are a consequence of the ways this relationship was articulated

  • Why the Margins Matter

    Open AccessThomas LaqueurARTICLEModern Intellectual History2006Citada por: 3

    “Occult,” a 1902 international encyclopedia of religion tells us, is derived “from Latin occultus —Hidden,” and is applied to the assumption that insight into and control over nature is to be obtained by mysterious or magical procedures and by long apprenticeship in secret lore. The physical science of the middle ages, alchemy and astrology, and in modern times spiritualism, theosophy, and palmistry contain various factors of occult lore. Such do…

  • Their Last Battle

    Thomas LaqueurARTICLEThe Public Historian2005Citada por: 2

  • Response to Section I

    Thomas Laqueur, Thomas Walter LaqueurARTICLELiterature and medicine2004

    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…

  • Roy Porter, 1946-2002 A critical appreciation

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLESocial History2004Referências: 1

  • The Beggar's Benison

    Thomas LaqueurARTICLEThe English Historical Review2003

    1University of Berkeley, California The Beggar's Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightened Scotland and their Rituals DavidStevenson East LintonTuckwell P. 2001265£18.99

  • Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

    Brownell/Wasserstrom, Brownell/Wasserstrom Brownell/Wasserstrom et al.BOOKChinese Femininities/Chinese…2003Citada por: 3

    The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate i…

  • Sex in the Flesh

    Thomas W Laqueur, Thomas LaqueurARTICLEIsis2003Citada por: 4Referências: 2

    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…