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Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient
ISBN: 9780415913911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this study, Sander Gilman unravels the strange tale of Kafka's relation to his body, to the specific Jewishness of his illness, and to his masculinity. Gilman's knowledge of Kafka's cultural and historical period, and specifically the cultural fears surrounding European Jews, opens the medical case of Kafka's famous body: the tall, gawky figure, wracked by deep anxieties about maleness, sickness and suffering. With access to Kafka's medical records, Gilman engages in an analysis of hyperchondria, anorexia, homosexuality, turn-of-the-century ritual slaughter, and myths about the...
In this study, Sander Gilman unravels the strange tale of Kafka's relation to his body, to the specific Jewishness of his illness, and to his masculin...
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180,80 zł |
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora
ISBN: 9789888208272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single divine being, and their modern global expanse. Yet it is the seeming closeness of these "Abrahamic" religions that draws attention to the real or imagined differences between them. This volume examines Abrahamic cultures as minority groups in societies which may be majority Muslim, Christian or Jewish, or self-consciously secular. The focus is on the relationships between these religious identities in global Diaspora, where all of them are...
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single di...
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241,82 zł |
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The Jew's Body
ISBN: 9781138145771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psychoanalysis in the construction of anti-Semitism,...
Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, i...
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855,36 zł |
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Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780415974202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. In this innovative reference work that spans many periods and cultures, the acclaimed cultural and medical historian Sander L. Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a fascinating series of articles. Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the... |
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879,80 zł |
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Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds
ISBN: 9780226293936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, "Jacob the Liar," and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany's most famous exiles from the GDR. A survivor of the Shoah-his mother died in a Nazi death camp-and witness to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, Becker endured most of the trials that Jews experienced in Europe from the onset of World War II to the end of the Cold War.
In the first biography of this fascinating figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood where Becker was... Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, "Jacob the Liar," and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany's most...
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185,22 zł |
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
ISBN: 9780822321118 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Why do physicians who have taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? This text explores such questions, offering a cultural history of the connections between beauty of the body and happiness of mind.
Why do physicians who have taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed a...
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205,29 zł |
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Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
ISBN: 9780745644400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This work on obesity charts its cultural history from the mid-19th century to the present day. It includes facts and cultural observations with examples from literature and the media.
This work on obesity charts its cultural history from the mid-19th century to the present day. It includes facts and cultural observations with exampl...
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257,25 zł |
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Faust's Leben, Thaten Und Höllenfahrt
ISBN: 9783484170445 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1978 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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574,79 zł |
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Seeing the Insane
ISBN: 9781626548763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Seeing the Insane" is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed. Covering the Middle Ages through the end of the nineteenth century, Sander L. Gilman explores the depictions of mental illness as seen in manuscripts, sculptures, lithographs, and photography. With artistic renderings and medical illustrations side-by-side, this volume includes over 250 visual displays of the mentally ill. These images capture society's reliance on... "Seeing the Insane" is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has bot... |
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150,84 zł |
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Fat Boys: A Slim Book
ISBN: 9780803271234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The fat man a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat man with the beautiful sylph trapped inside to the smart fat boy to the aging body desirous of rejuvenation, appear and reappear in different guises throughout Western culture. And as is often true, such marginal cases help define the shifting center of our dreams and beliefs. An exploration into the world of male body fantasies, Gilman s book examines how the representation of the fat man alters with time and alters...
The fat man a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman ...
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97,70 zł |
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Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference
ISBN: 9780804732611 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts--in high literature, in medical literature, in art--from the last fin-de-siecle to our own. Intensely engaged in the cultural politics of everyday life and conscious of how texts reflect and shape our social practices, they deal primarily with representations and self-representations of "Jews" in the past one hundred years and focus on the question of the constructions of the Jew's body in...
The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and...
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566,98 zł |
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Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries
ISBN: 9780195067781 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Ree, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important for his conversations than for his letters. In Conversations with Nietzsche, Sander Gilman and David Parent present a fascinating selection of eighty-seven memoirs, anecdotes, and informal recollections by friends and acquaintances of Nietzsche. Translated from the definitive German collection, Begegnungen mit Nietzsche, these biographical pieces--some of which have never before appeared in English--cover the entire span of...
Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Ree, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important ...
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367,48 zł |
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The Jew's Body
ISBN: 9780415904599 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psycho-analysis in the construction of anti-Semitism,...
Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, i...
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190,58 zł |
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The Fortunes of the Humanities: Thoughts for After the Year 2000
ISBN: 9780804732642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore ") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?") over the past decade, how can we teach and research in the humanities in the years to come? Drawing on thirty years of experience, a distinguished teacher and scholar here presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities, especially the teaching of "foreign" languages and culture. Rather than rail at a worldwide conspiracy by universities against the humanities, the author argues that...
Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore ") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?") over the past decade, ...
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107,48 zł |
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Multiculturalism and the Jews
ISBN: 9780415979184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of "the multicultural" in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?
Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultural... In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of "the multicultural" in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the...
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180,80 zł |
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Health and Illness: Images of Difference
ISBN: 9780948462696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill."
"Gilman tells an excellent tale." Jewish Chronicle" This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "he...
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92,36 zł |
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Difference and Pathology: Shakespeare's English Chronicles
ISBN: 9780801493324 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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117,25 zł |
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Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780415801935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Diets and dieting have concerned--and sometimes obsessed--human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. An A to Z encyclopedia, this innovative reference work spans many periods and cultures as the acclaimed cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a fascinating series of articles. ...Diets and dieting have concerned--and sometimes obsessed--human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the c... |
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288,33 zł |
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Jews and Science
ISBN: 9781612498010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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195,51 zł |
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Sexuality: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9781626549210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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159,47 zł |
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