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    Peter Gay

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    And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #certain #certain things #history #i #interest

    Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #ever #every #historian #using #without

    My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #assumption #developed #freud #fundamentally #human

    My definition of modernism took a while to develop. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #develop #modernism #took #while

    People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #forget #freud #itself #legacy #now

    To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #boon #creature #disagree #just #kind

    What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. ↗


    — Peter Gay

    #been #interested #interests #me #modernism






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    De Dijn argues that Gay in The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (1966) first formulated the interpretation that the Enlightenment brought political modernization to the West in terms of introducing democratic values and institutions and the creation of modern liberal democracies. The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues on the Enlightenment 1970. Scholarship
    According to the American Historical Association's Award Citation Gay's range of "scholarly achievements is truly remarkable".

    Gay received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. Peter Gay was born in Berlin Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the United States in 1941. He is the author of more than twenty-five books including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation a multi-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968) a bestseller; and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).

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