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S'està carregant… Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna (2003)de Peter Singer
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Singer, a philosopher, bioethicist, professor, and author of 16 books, is best known for the "animal liberation" movement, which deals with the ethics of our treatment of animals. He also is the grandson of David Oppenheim, a Jew and a classical scholar who lived in Vienna and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. Oppenheim's wife, Amalie, survived the Holocaust and moved to Australia in 1946. Singer found many letters and intimate personal papers in an aunt's home in Australia and in the State Archives of Austria. They included more than 100 letters that Singer's grandparents wrote to his parents and to his mother's sister after they left for Australia in 1938. Singer describes how his grandfather became a friend of Sigmund Freud and how they discussed theories of psychology. Oppenheim later parted with Freud, following instead the first of the great heretics of psychoanalysis, Alfred Adler. Singer's book is an exceptional eulogy to his grandfather. "What binds us pushes time away" wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator, then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights and depths of Vienna's twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. He perished in obscurity at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943, separated from family and friends, leaving his grandson, the philosopher Peter Singer, without a chance to know him. Almost fifty years later Peter Singer set out to explore the life of the grandfather he never knew, and found a scholar whose ideas on ethics and human nature often parallel his own writings. Drawing on a wealth of documents and personal letters, Singer made startling discoveries about his grandparents' early romantic attachments, the basis on which they decide to marry, their professional aspirations, and their differing views of Judaism. An essay that Oppenheim co-wrote with Freud, but which was suppressed because of a bitter split within Freud's psychoanalytical society, leads Singer to explore the difficulties of following one's own ideas in the circles of both Freud and Adler. Combining touching family biography with thoughtful reflection on both personal and public questions we face today, Pushing Time Away captures critical moments in Europe's transition from Belle Époque to the Great War and to the rise of Fascism and the coming of World War II. Singer gives us a vivid portrait of Vienna when it was the center of European culture and new ideas, a culture that was both intensely Jewish and distinctly secular. Examining this culture and its fate forces Singer to confront one of the foundations of his own thought: How much can we rely on universal values and human reason? Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Biographical account of Austro-Hungarian Jew David Oppenheim, classical scholar, intellectual, and supporter of the free enquiry of Freud and Adler. Based on Oppenheim's own personal letters and essays, the book follows his capture and imprisonment by the Nazis and explores the impact of fascism on Vienna and the development of free enquiry. Written by Oppenheim's own grandson, it also highlights the subject's personal, religious and family obligations. Includes a family tree, photos, and notes on sources. Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Author is a philosopher, ethicist and Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University whose previous works include 'Writing on an Ethical Life' and 'Animal Liberation'. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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David was a member of Freud's Wednesday group then, after a split with Freud, aligned himself with Adler. Singer has used his grandfather's letters and writings to shed light on the bitter feuding between the pioneers of psychology.
Oppenheim participated in the intellectual and cultural circles of Vienna, so the story of his life is also a history of the city from the end of the Hapsburg Empire, when 15% of the population was Jewish, until 1942 when no Jews remained.
Much of interest in Singer's book, in particular the reality of people's lives in Vienna after the German annexation, and in the ghetto of Thieresienstadt. ( )