Thomas W Laqueur (137 results)
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Ignatieff, Michael; Gutmann, Amy [Editor]; Appiah, Kwame Anthony [Commentary]; Hollinger, David A. [Commentary]; Laqueur, Thomas W. [Commentary]; Orentlicher, Diane F. [Commentary];
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2001
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series, 39)
Ignatieff, Michael; Gutmann, Amy [Editor]; Appiah, Kwame Anthony [Commentary]; Hollinger, David A. [Commentary]; Laqueur, Professor Thomas W. [Commentary]; Orentlicher, Diane F. [Commentary];
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2003
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry: (The University Center for Human Values Series)
Ignatieff, Michael; Gutmann, Amy [Editor]; Appiah, Kwame Anthony [Commentary]; Hollinger, David A. [Commentary]; Laqueur, Thomas W. [Commentary]; Orentlicher, Diane F. [Commentary];
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Published by Princeton University Press, 2003
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The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820
Jones, Colin; Dror Wahrman (eds.) Thomas W. Laqueur, David A. Bell, Kathleen Wilson, Sarah Maza, Carolyn Steedman, James Chandler
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Human Rights As Politics and Idolatry (First Printing)
Gutmann, Amy & Michael Ignatieff & Kwame Anthony Appiah & Diane F. Orentlicher & David A. Hollinger & Professor Thomas W. Laqueur
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001
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501 pp., notes, index. Deep and detailed look into the literature on masturbation. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. "It is difficult to think of many other books that are at once so brilliant, so wonderfully entertaining, and so moving . . . The Dogs Gaze is full of exuberant insights about our canine friends, about art, and about the human condition." Stephen GreenblattA splendid blend of histories: natu…ral, cultural, and artistic . . . A delight for dog-loving art connoisseurs, and vice versa. Kirkus (starred review)From award-winning cultural historian, an enlightening and unique meditation on the presence of dogs in art, from the Paleolithic era to the present, and what our intertwined human-canine relationship reveals about human natureLong before the phrase mans best friend became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dogs Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites us to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories.Dogs have been ubiquitous in the worldmaking of visual artists as far back as the Paleolithic age. Looking across the Western tradition, from Giotto to Goya and Rubens to Rego, Laqueur shows what their presenceas hunting partners, beloved friends, and even conduits to the afterlifereveals about our own ways of seeing and how we want to be remembered. Far from being mere motifs, dogs are an integral and intentional element of the images in which they appear: They provide narrative coherence; they look out and bear witness, often on the artists behalf; they illuminate our understanding of morality and melancholy and some, like us, become celebrities. Indeed, as Laqueur reveals, dogs in art are our social doppelgaengers, our companions in looking and being.Richly illustrated and lovingly written, The Dogs Gaze is a unique visual history that examines the remarkable social bond between two species, shedding new light on the human condition through the eyes of our canine companions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A historical account of masturbation as a moral issue and cultural taboo.At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most universal one is embarrassing, discomforting, and… genuinely radical when openly acknowledged. Masturbation may be the last taboo. But this is not a holdover from a more benighted age. The ancient world cared little about the subject; it was a backwater of Jewish and Christian teaching about sexuality. In fact, solitary sex as a serious moral issue can be dated with a precision rare in cultural history; Laqueur identifies it with the publication of the anonymous tract Onania in about 1722. Masturbation is a creation of the Enlightenment, of some of its most important figures, and of the most profound changes it unleashed. It is modern. It worried at first not conservatives, but progressives. It was the first truly democratic sexuality that could be of ethical interest for women as much as for men, for boys and girls as much as for their elders.The book's range is vast. It begins with the prehistory of solitary sex in the Bible and ends with third-wave feminism, conceptual artists, and the Web. It explains how and why this humble and once obscure means of sexual gratification became the evil twin-or the perfect instance-of the great virtues of modern humanity and commercial society: individual moral autonomy and privacy, creativity and the imagination, abundance and desire. A historical account of masturbation as a moral issue and cultural taboo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: New. The meaning of our concern for mortal remains-from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe 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, acc…laimed 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 matters-for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.The book draws on a vast range of sources-from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed-and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture.A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry: 39 (The University Center for Human Values Series)
Ignatieff, Michael; Gutmann, Amy; Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Hollinger, David A.; Laqueur, Thomas W.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 2003
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Condition: Very Good. A tight and unmarked copy-" Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights i…n 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens. Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become idolatry. In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, that Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years. Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, and comments by four leading scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--and a response by Ignatieff. Review: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry may raise some hackles for its controversial approach to a sacrosanct subject, but Michael Ignatieff's arguments are carefully wrought and compassionate. Ignatieff is director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and his work is part history of the evolution of human rights in international politics and part caution that it not become a new religion. He writes, "We need to stop thinking of human rights as trumps and begin thinking of them as a language that creates the basis for deliberation."-moderate edge wear.
