![]() The book is a collection of essays, written during the 1970's, with a preface and a long introduction. Names with which Gay associates himself in this book are Richard Hofstadter and Jacques Barzun, and another I was reminded of while reading was Lionel Trilling.) I shall discuss primarily this ideological bearing of the argument, which carries the values of what I would call the intellectual establishment of America, or at least of its East Coast. Name and dangerous pseudo- ideas like racism. They assert the importance of culture, high culture, Kultur and they enforce its discipline against ideas not worthy of the ![]() ![]() Implication have a general ideological bearing, beyond the particular historical field Gay is discussing. "Jewishness" does not explain intellectual styles, "Vienna" does not explain psychoanalysis, and "Modernism" is not the special property or affinity of German Jews. He implication of Peter Gay's title is that Freud and other German Jews should be thought of as products of German culture and not in other ![]() Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture. JanuA Love Affair With German Culture By MARTIN GREEN ![]()
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