Michael Lambek

Behind the Glass

The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9781487542191
• ISBN-10: 1487542194
• Artikelnr.: 63660965

Autorenporträt

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: House and Family
1. People Who Live in Glass Houses
2. Writing the Family
Part II: Family and Firm
3. Before Löw-Beers
4. Founding the Firm
5. The Patriarch and His Siblings
6. The Sister Wives
7. The Double Cousins, before the War
8. Departures and After
9. The Patriarch’s Son
Part III: Grete and Her World
10. Grete and Her Family, in Former Times
11. Grete and Her Family, the War Years
12. Grete and Her Family, after the War
13. The Philosophers: Helene Weiss, Käte Victorius, Ernst Tugendhat, Martin
Heidegger
14. Tugendhat, after Heidegger
Part IV: The Family Regrouped and Represented
15. The Reunion
16. Reconciliations in Brno
17. Looking Back: Conundrums of Identity and Representation
Notes
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Index