The cultivation of hatred

History

PETER GAY

World

Harpercollins

The Victorians we meet in this volume range from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie, eager to be recognized as gentlemen, to the clerks and craftsmen fearful of sinking into the proletariat. Peter Gay's aim throughout this sweeping work of cultural history is to widen our perception of Victorian bourgeois life, to replace monochromatic generalizations with revealing portraits of men and women in all the colorful complexity of their lives.

Pleasure Wars - The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria To Freud, Volume V

Europe

W.W.Norton&Company

An exploration of causes in history, drawing its examples from the fields of painting and architecture. Using the lives and works of three artists, this book explains how character, craft and culture together determined how each of them created what he did.

Art and Act: On Causes in History--Manet, Gropius, Mondrian (Icon Editions)

Harper

Modernism The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

Vintage Books

Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. Containing 51 texts which span Freud's entire career, from early case histories, through his work on dreams and essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings (including "Civilisation and Its Discontents"), this book brings together his ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. Introductions to the texts are provided by Peter Gay, who has also written a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture.

The Freud Reader

Literature & Fiction

Classics

In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.

Style In History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

JONATHAN CAPE.

This work completes the author's reinterpretation begun in "The The Rise of Modern Paganism". It describes the programme of the "philosophes" and their views of society, with the aim of providing insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its human and libertarian vision.

Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom v. 2

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Mozarts unshakeable hold on the publics fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gays bold, new perspective. His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestros life. Here is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over early precociousness and who eventually broke away from a loving but tyrannical father to pursue his vision unhampered. This book traces the legendary developments of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre  especially opera  into new realms. More than an engrossing biography, this is a meditation on the nature of genius.

Lives: Mozart

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Published in 1860, Burckhardt’s great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics)

Arts & Photography

Hajo Holborn

Jacob, Burckhardt

History & Criticism

Modern Library

1977. W.W. Norton. First Edition. Number line 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. No reading lines on spine. Book looks almost like new. Minimal wear to edges. front cover turns up slightly. Very clean and bright and tight. This is a used book.

An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism

W.W.Norton & Co

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