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Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 22) (Volume 1) Paperback – April 22, 1987

by Klaus Theweleit (Author), Chris Turner (Translator), Stephen Conway (Translator),

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First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist "warrior" through a study of the fantasies of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Series: Theory and History of Literature (Book 22)
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1St Edition edition (April 1, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816614490
ISBN-13: 978-0816614493
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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Dion Dennis

Useful background reading for the Trumpian Dystopia

December 8, 2016

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Fascinating, if a bit disjointed, here are the antecedents to both the Nazis and the Alt-Right: The early post WWI German Freikorps, analyzed brilliantly by Klaus Theweleit. A hatred of cities, women and the Other, a fear of loss of rigid boundaries animated these proto-Nazis, then and now. More useful reading for the dystopic Age of Trump.

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John Russon

Eye-Opening Cultural Study, both in method and results.

October 27, 2004

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Male Fantasies is a book I wish many, many people would read. The writing is long-winded, the author's ideas are sometimes (in Volume II) flaky, but the content of the book is too good for this to matter. Theweleit studies the art and literature of a particular group of men--the Freikorps--who were essentially disaffected former soldiers in Germany after the First World War. These men developed their own groups and their own culture, and became the firsts-in-line to man Hitler's new army in the '30s (the Brown Shirts and Black Shirts). What is so fascinating about this book is that it approaches the study of this group by looking at the images of women in their writings. Initially, the author goes in great detail over letters these men wrote; then he looks at their magazines and novels. It turns out that through their images of women, a whole vision of human personal and political reality can be decoded. A particular vision of women (a complex typology of types of women: the mother, the sister, the white nurse, the red nurse, etc.) turns out to be intimately interwoven with a fascist approach to human life--AND this vision turns out to be the core of a great deal of our own imagery and political self-perception. The first 225 pages of Book I are the crucial part to read, and then you can skip around through the rest of Volumes I and II as you see fit. The discussion of Freud and Medusa in this section and the discussion of the notions of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in the work of Deleuze and Guattar are specially valuable segments. This book is also a good introduction to some important Weimar-era history, especially regarding Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacists. I recommend this book to anyone in the humanities and to any generally intellectually minded adult. If you take the time to get into it, it will change your perception of some important things.

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Colin McLarty

Richly and persuasively detailed history

October 6, 2000

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A deeply felt and extensively documented look at the lives and times of these men in Weimar Germany. The author looks unflinching at the Freikorps men, precursors of the Nazis, with all that they have very different from most of us today--and all they have that is all too common with us today. But here I am stressing the conclusion. The point is, he honestly gets his conclusions out of huge amounts of documentation on everyday life. These men represent an extreme, of course, but their motives and life-conditions were very close to many people in the Weimar Republic. It is a great book on that period, which also relates that time to our own.

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The Pink Swastika at work! Pity that the author did not consider this issue...

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