Питер Гей

At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to t...

Education of the Senses - The Bourgeois Experiance - Victoria to Freud

In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939 - "the story, " says Peter Gay, 'of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.' Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings -- then and now -- toward Germany and the Germ...

The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision.

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accom...

First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler'...

Вниманию читателя предлагается первая переведенная на русский язык книга известного американского историка Питера Гэя (1923–2015), автора классических трудов об эпохе Просвещения, Веймарской республике и т. д. В своем обобщающем исследовании модернизма, написанном в поздний период творчества, Гэй подводит итоги полуторавековой эволюции движения, коренным образом изменившего культуру и искусство вс...

Человек социален, сексуален и знает о том, что смертен (это три кита психоанализа). Основатель теории психоанализа Зигмунд Фрейд разработал трехкомпонентную структурную модель человеческой психики и исследовал механизмы ее защиты, сформулировал метод свободных ассоциаций и обосновал пользу толкования сновидений, ввел понятия «психоанализ», «эдипов комплекс», «бессознательное». Он создал концепцию ...