| Free Expression is no offence | 2005 |
| The Cabaret | 2004 |
| Freud's Women | 2000 |
| 1999 | |
| Simone De Beauvoir | 1988 |
| 1984 | |
| Femininity and the Creative Imagination | 1973 |
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A law criminalizing incitement to religious hatred has been high on the Labour Government's list of priorities. It is a law with wide-ranging implications for freedom of expression in Britain: it could be used to censor anyone whether writer, comedian or person in the street who wishes to make a statement about religion that others might find offensive. "Free Expression is No Offence" tackles the issue of free speech in the post-9/11 world from a variety of angles. Its authors draw on their wide-ranging experience to show just why it is that attempts to curtail our freedom must be vigorously resisted by anyone who wants all faiths and none to live peaceably side by side and our many cultures to thrive. |
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| Simone de Beauvoir - 2005 - buy book | |
 `Gifted
with an irrepressible and inexhaustible energy, Simone de Beauvoir
had that rare kind of intelligence which allowed her to seem eternally
young and grow more radical with time.'This is the fascinating life
story of a woman whose struggle for intellectual and sexual freedom
inspired several generations. Appignanesi subtly evokes the particular
flavour of Simone de Beauvoir's singular life - as philosopher, novelist,
leading member of the existentialist movement, socialist, and feminist,
but also a woman who described her unique partnership with Jean-Paul
Sartre as `the one undoubted success in my life'. The conflicts caused
by de Beauvoir's unquestioning devotion to Sartre are vividly illuminated,
as are her writing, the contradictions in her feminism and the inextricable
links between her life and her intellectual project. Haus Publishers 2005. Translated into Spanish and German |
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| Freud's Women - Phoenix 2005 - buy book | |
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John ForresterSigmund Freud is one of the most influential thinkers of the twetieth century. His ideas permeate our everyday thinking about life, love, gender, the family and the relation between the sexes. These ideas took on shape and substance in the same period that `the woman question' became a burning issue. Sometimes championed as a liberator of women, Freud has also been virulently attacked for his theories of the feminine and for elevating his personal prejudices to the height of universal pronouncement.Freud's Women probes biography and case history, mines dreams, correspondence and journals, and examines theory to chart Freud's views on femininity. It also tells the many storeis of Freud's women and explores their influence on him and his on them: dutiful daughter Anna, who carried on his work; the novelist and turn-of-the-century femme fatale, Lou Salome; Marie Bonaparte, who mixed royalty and perversity with effortless ease and became the head of the French psychoanalytic movement; the early hysterics who were the cornerstone of psychoanalysis - all these and more emerge vividly from the pages of this important study as it assesses Freud's contemporary legacy.`This wonderful book is the tale of the great twentieth-century love affair with Freudian thought. It is an overblown historical romance that has at its centre the riddle of femininity itself. ' Suzanne Moore, The Guardian`A marvellously rich and engrossing work of intellectual history, deftly composed.' Richard Wollheim. The New York Times Book Review`Intelligent, sophisticated and written with great flair…. Challenges the prejudices of Freudians and feminists alike.' Roy Porter`An ambitious history of Freud's relationships with women - from dutiful daughter to psychoanalystical disciple, from classic hysteric to feminist critic… a lucid, sympathetic account.' Elaine Showalter, The Times Literay Supplement Books of the Year. New Revised Edition: Penguin Books, 2000 The Other Press, N.Y. 2001 Original Edition: Weidenfeld Orion, 1992 Basic Books, N,Y., 1992. Translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Polish |
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| The Cabaret - 2004 | |
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Lisa Appignanesi 's well-researched and gracefully written Cabaret
is as frisky, smart, mischievous, and high-stepping as the art
form she comprehensively chronicles.' John Lahr, The New Yorker This
captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history
of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians
and theatre directors have gathered since 1881, when Le Chat Noir,
opened its doors in Paris to become a meeting place of the avant-garde
and a laboratory for subversive laughter. Appignanesi traces the journey
of cabaret across Europe and to the United States , through its links
with the Futurists and Dadaists, from St Petersburg to London and
Zurich , and into its Weimar heyday. This new edition comes with a
wealth of new material from eastern Europe and explores the post-war
life of the cabaret , as well as the splintering of the form into
stand-up comedy and club life. ‘Wonderfully research and beautifully
illustrated ( Cabaret is) and admirable supplement to the
history of the twentieth century.' Jonathan Miller New and revised edition, Yale University Press £25.00 ISBN 0 300 10580 0 |
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| Losing the Dead- 2000 - buy book | |
 `A
compassionate and intelligent memoir… This dramatic story, written
with a generoisty of spirit and gorgeous flashes of wit, is a voyage
of discovery both for the restless dead and Appignanesi's own brave
spirit.' The TimesAs her mother slipped into the darkness of old age,
Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality
behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her
parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the
truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw - imagining and revisiting
a past she never knew.This is the moving, rarely told story, of the
Jews who survived outside the camps, but it is also the author's own
voyage of self-discovery - a family memoir of the rites of passage
of migration, childhood, and growing up an outsider in a closed community.
Appignanesi brilliantly explores the workings of personal and public
memory, the legacies of internalized racism and the myths families
create in order to make life bearable. Short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Wingate Literary Prize 2000. Profound and tragic…a powerful and tender memorial.' Independent` Remarkable… beautifully told and permeated with the wisdom of those who survive against all odds.' Financial Times `Vivid, beautifully written, and all the more poignant for its lack of piety… This is the work of remembering in its truest, and fullest, sense. 'Chatto & Windus, 1999; Vintage 2000 MacArthur and Co. 2000 Translated into Dutch |
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| Femininity and the Creative Imagination: Henry James, Marcel Proust and Robert Musil 1973 | |
 FEMININITY
AND THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION: Henry James, Marcel Proust and Robert
Musil 1973We have had enough of `the pistol, the pirate, the police, the wild and tame beast, Henry James declared. It was time to look to the women. `It is the ladies…who have done most to remind us of man's relations with himself, that is with women.' In this study, Appignanesi takes James at his word. Women were at the centre of his work, his choice vehicles, whether romantically headstrong or tragic. But he was only one of the writers of his period to focus in on women. This examination of what is effectively a `myth of femininity' probes the works of James, Proust and the great Austrian writer, Robert Musil, to see how these major figures looked to women and ideas of the feminine - however differently - as matter for their art. Vision Press 1973 |
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Lisa Appignanesi (editor)