Category Archives: Dannhauser, Werner
Women, Nature, and Society: Response to “Back to Nature”
This recording opens by replaying Werner Dannhauser’s commentary on Soundings on (“Back to Nature,” February 20, 1983, Episode #125), in which he stated his views on the women’s movement, feminism, and social values. A response to Dannhauser follows [4:40] from Leila … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gender equality, Women's Movement
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The Paideia Proposal, Part 3 of 4
In the third of four programs, Mortimer Adler discusses with Werner Dannhauser, Thomas Houlihan, Pamela Mayer, and Penelope Smith the educational theories presented in The Paideia Proposal, which he published in 1982. The Paideia Proposal argues for single-track, humanistic, general, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Education -- theory, Education -- U.S., Paideia Proposal
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(1) The State of the Language, Part 2 of 5; (2) Commentary on Sexuality, “Back to Nature”
Ronald Butters, Margreta de Grazia, Connie Eble, and Michael Montgomery mull over the richness and fluidity of written English in the age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, before the language moved toward standardization a century later with the … Continue reading
Posted in Butters, Ronald R., Dannhauser, Werner, de Grazia, Margreta, Eble, Connie, Episodes, Montgomery, Michael
Tagged English language, English literature, Sexuality, Shakespeare, Women's Liberation Movement
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Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud in the 1980s
Werner Dannhauser and Steven Marcus describe why Marx and Freud are two inescapable cultural and intellectual forces of the nineteenth century and discuss parallels and differences between Freudian psychoanalytical and Marxist political theory. Dannhauser and Marcus also talk about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl Marx, Marxism, Psychoanalysis -- History, Sigmund Freud
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(1) Modern Zionism; (2) Commentary on Friendship
Werner Dannhauser discusses the intellectual roots of the Jewish state and modern Zionism as a religious and political movement. He speaks about the origins of the word “Zion,” and characterizes Judaism as a geographical, land-based religion, recalling paradigms of traditional … Continue reading
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