Sander L. Gilman Livres

„At last: a catalogue which is so convincing that it makes a museum visit practically redundant.“ (die tageszeitung)

The book explores the evolution of sexuality representation in Western civilization from the rise of Christianity, highlighting how cultural definitions of beauty, gender, health, and morality have influenced societal identity. Gilman illustrates the enduring themes of masculinity and femininity, as well as the sacred and profane, revealing their interconnectedness within the broader narrative of Western culture over nearly two millennia.

In the first biography of this figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood where Becker was born; the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps where Becker spent his childhood; the socialist order of the GDR, which Becker idealized, resisted, and finally was forced to leave; the isolated world of West Berlin, where he settled down to continue his writing; and the new, reunified Germany, for which Becker served as both conscience and inspiration.

A timely, cogent exploration of how COVID-19 has caused predudice and xenophobia.

This is the first book to examine an emerging new German Jewish culture that has become visible since the fall of the Berlin Wall.The Shoah seemed to have erased the historical Jewish presence in German culture. Since the late 1980s, however, a once-silent and therefore relatively invisible Jewish community of the victims of the Shoah has been restructuring itself, as a new generation of German Jews enters the mainstream of German cultural life. Sander L. Gilman surveys the recent explosion of works by creative artists who invoke their Jewish identity and place at the center of their art the question of what it means to be a Jew in contemporary Germany.After introducing this new generation of German Jewish novelists, dramatists, film makers, and critics, Gilman analyzes the critical reception of the novels of Rafael Seligmann and Esther Dischereit, two of the most interesting younger writers. A chapter is devoted to the issue of visibility or invisibility as it is inscribed in the representation of the Jewish body in contemporary German Jewish culture. The book concludes with a study of the central role of gender in the structuring of Jewish identity and the author's observations on the complexities of life in the present-day German Jewish Diaspora.

Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated personal library. Reading Freud's Reading is a guided tour of this library, the intellectual tools of the genius of Sigmund Freud.Specialists from a wide range of areas—from the history of medicine, to literary scholarship, to the history of classical scholarship—spent two months working on questions raised by Freud's reading and his library at the Freud Museum in London. These specialists are joined here by internationally renowned scholars including Ned Lukatcher, Harold P. Blum, and Michael Molnar to apply a wide range of critical approaches, from depth psychoanalysis to cultural analysis. Together, they present a detailed look at the implications of how, and what, Freud read, including the major sources he used for his work.

Traces the medicalization of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate this racist biological literature into medical practice. This book focuses on Freud, and his work, as a case study.

Gilman agrues that Freud dealt with his anxiety about himself as a Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world by projecting it onto other cultural "inferiors"--such as women. This fresh view of the beginnings of psychoanalysis will interest readers of history, Jewish studies, gender studies, literature, and others. Halftones.

This work provides a history of Jewish writing and thought in the German-speaking world. Written by 118 scholars in the field, the book is arranged chronologically, moving from the 11th century to the present. Throughout, it depicts the contribution that Jewish writers have made to German culture and at the same time explores what it means to the other within that mainstream culture.

Aesthetic surgery's global significance is explored through its historical and cultural contexts, from ancient practices in India to modern trends in South Korea and Argentina. Sander Gilman examines diverse topics, including the cultural implications of cosmetic procedures like nose jobs and breast removal, arguing that these surgeries enable individuals to conform to societal standards and enhance their identities. By presenting a comprehensive history, Gilman reveals the universal desire to "pass" within various social groups, highlighting the profound impact of aesthetic surgery on personal and cultural identity.