Male Fantasies
Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies History
$90.68
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1987
Summary
This first volume of Male Fantasies centers on the fantasies that preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism. These men were officers in the Freikorps–private, volunteer armies that roamed Germany, serving the cause of domestic repression in the aftermath of World War I. Klaus Theweleit draws upon the novels, letters, and autobiographies of these proto-fascists and their contemporaries, as well as cartoons, advertisements, engravings, and posters. He …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816614493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0816614490 |
| Author: | Klaus Theweleit |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1987 |
| Weight: | 771g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Theory and History of Literature |
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Critics Review
“As a theory of fascism, Male Fantasies sets forth the jarring–and ultimately horrifying–proposition that the fascist is not doing ‘something else, ’ but doing what he wants to do. Theweleit insists that we see and not ‘read’ violence. He forces us to acknowledge that these acts of fascist terror spring from irreducible human desire.” –from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
“A brilliant analysis of masculine identity as a flight from the feminine, as fear of ego dissolution and of warfare as the fulfillment of an alienated longing for fusion and for the legitimate explosion of the ego boundary… . Already a classic in Germany.” –Anson Rabinbach, Cooper Union
Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit earned his Ph.D. in German literature at the University of Freiburg and is now a freelance writer. Among his other books is Object-Choice: All You Need Is Love.
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment and Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class.
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