Freedom and Karl Jasper's Philosophy

(As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has ...)

As a founding father of Existentialism, Karl Jaspers has been seen as a twentieth-century successor to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; as an exponent of reason, he has been seen as an heir of Kant. But studies tracing influences upon his thought or placing him in the context of Existentialism have not dealt with Jaspers's concern with the political realm and how we think in it and about it. In this study Elisabeth Young-Bruehl explicates Jaspers's practical philosophizing, his search for ways in which we can orient ourselves toward our world and its political questions.

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Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Second Edition

( This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one o...)

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book’s 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject’s life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition: “Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review “A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”—Jim Miller, Newsweek “Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe “An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”—Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Cover drawing by David Schorr

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Anna Freud: A Biography

(Child of one of the intellectual giants of the 20th centu...)

Child of one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century, Anna Freud eventually emerged as a remarkable personality in her own right, recognized as the founder of child analysis. From her Viennese childhood to her last days in Hampstead wrapped in her father's old woollen coat, this biography draws on access to her personal poetry, letters, dreams and prose writing. Elisabeth Bruehl-Young is author of "For Love of the World", a prize winning biography of Hannah Arendt. She was appointed a Freud Fellow for 1986-1987 by the Freud Museum in Hampstead.

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Mind and the Body Politic

(Takes up questions raised by Hannah Arendt about the facu...)

Takes up questions raised by Hannah Arendt about the faculties of the mind and of judgement. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers of feminist theory, philosophy of mind, psychology, political theory.

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Mind and the Body Politic by Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (1989) Paperback

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The Anatomy of Prejudices

(In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl tu...)

In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.

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The Anatomy of Prejudices by Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (1996) Hardcover

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[ The Anatomy of Prejudices[ THE ANATOMY OF PREJUDICES ] By Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth ( Author )Feb-19-1998 Paperback

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Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives

( In this provocative new book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl i...)

In this provocative new book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. A practicing psychoanalyst, a distinguished scholar, and the widely praised biographer of Anna Freud and Hannah Arendt, Young-Bruehl here reflects on the relations between self-knowledge, autobiography, biography, and cultural history. She considers what remains valuable in Sigmund Freud's work, and what areas--theory of character, for instance--must be rethought to be useful for current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory. Psychoanalytic theory used for biography, she argues, can yield insights for psychoanalysis itself, particularly in the understanding of creativity. Subject to Biography offers not simply the products of an astute mind, but an entrée into the thinking process; it welcomes the reader into the writer's workshop.

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Anna Freud: A Biography

(Child of one of the intellectual giants of the 20th centu...)

Child of one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century, Anna Freud eventually emerged as a remarkable personality in her own right, recognized as the founder of child analysis. From her Viennese childhood to her last days in Hampstead wrapped in her father's old woollen coat, this biography draws on access to her personal poetry, letters, dreams and prose writing. Elisabeth Bruehl-Young is author of "For Love of the World", a prize winning biography of Hannah Arendt. She was appointed a Freud Fellow for 1986-1987 by the Freud Museum in Hampstead.

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Creative Characters

(The study of creativity is as old as western thought. In ...)

The study of creativity is as old as western thought. In recent times any crisis of confidence is likely to involve anxiety about the loss of creativity--scientific, artistic, technological--and to set off a new search for creativity's definition. In Creative Characters, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. Some look at the act of creation, others focus on the creators, while others stress the conscious or unconscious motivations of creative people. All these approaches share certain limitations. They lack an integrative perspective and they search for a common denominator--one definition of the creative process, a single creative type--which obscures the diversity of creative people and their work. Young-Bruehl here offers an original analysis of creativity based on a theory of character. Creative people, she argues, create in the medium of their characters. They develop (usually unconsciously) an image of their characters or, in other terms, an ideal for the organization of their minds and lives, which they both aspire to and project into whatever they create. This character-ideal appears in their works, their social visions, their philosophies of nature, and also their understandings of creative processes, their own and others'. What creative people wish for themselves, for the psychic order in themselves, is what they wish for in their lives and works. Young-Bruehl suggests that there are three broad character and creative types, each comprised of many variations. She displays these ways of getting one's psychic act together or getting a product together by turning to three ancient Greek theorists of creativity--Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno--and three modern theorists--Nietzsche, Freud, and Proust. She then proceeds by clustering biographical vignettes and portraits of ideas in which she can show--rather than try to define--the creativity as well as the character ideal she has in mind. Of special interest to Young-Bruehl is what individuals say about their own creativity, especially when creativity is not explicitly their topic. Her approach is primarily psychoanalytic, but she also uses philosophical analysis, literary criticism, history of science, and biography. Psychoanalysts and psychologists will find the book not only a new approach to creativity, but a new way of doing applied psychoanalysis: there have been many psychobiographies but no effort has been made to survey them and draw conclusions. Philosophers will discover a major contribution to the theory of character, one of the most neglected subfields of philosophy. Finally, in Creative Characters biography readers will see how the study of individual lives can lead to reflection on larger questions.

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Anna Freud

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Anna Freud (Spanish Edition)

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Anna Freud: A Biography

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Anna Freud: A Biography

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Anna Freud: A Biography by Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (1988) Hardcover

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[(Anna Freud: A Biography)] [Author: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl] published on (October, 2008)

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