Suchergebnisse

Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In Cultural Passions she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the relationshi

ch. 1. The natural habits of feminist psychology -- ch. 2. The origins of scientific psychology -- ch. 3. Morphologies of mind -- ch. 4. Projects for a scientific psychology : Freud, Derrida, and connectionist theories of cognition -- ch. 5. Locating cognition : force, topography, and the psychical trace.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Depression, Biology, Aggression -- PART I. FEMINIST THEORY -- CHAPTER 1. Underbelly -- CHAPTER 2. The Biological Unconscious -- CHAPTER 3. Bitter Melancholy -- PART II. ANTIDEPRESSANTS -- CHAPTER 4. Chemical Transference -- CHAPTER 5. The Bastard Placebo -- CHAPTER 6. The Pharmakology of Depression -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Somatic Compliance -- 1 Freud, Prozac, and Melancholic Neurology -- 2 The Brain in the Gut -- 3 Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay's Study of Sexual Orientation -- 4 Trembling, Blushing: Darwin's Nervous System -- 5 Emotional Lizards: Evolution and the Reptilian Brain -- Notes -- References -- Index

This study use fiction, essays, film and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities - London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka and Sao Paulo - and presents a critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism and traditional architecture. For women, the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women - and the working class and ethnic miniroties - by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centres have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives the reader an introduction to what this might be.