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  2. Alan L. Berger - Wikipedia

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    Alan L. Berger (born November 16, 1939) is an American scholar, writer and professor of Judaic Studies and Holocaust studies at the Florida Atlantic University. He occupies the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University and is director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz.

  3. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - Wikipedia

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    Roediger stated that while he preferred Ted Allen's works on white identity, criticizing what he felt was the book's "at times 'categorical and transhistorical' dismissal of those defined as white", he had hoped other labor historians would take notice of the book's arguments. [12] Berger described Settlers as a "paradigm-setting" book that ...

  4. Henri Ellenberger - Wikipedia

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    Ellenberger is chiefly remembered for The Discovery of the Unconscious, an encyclopedic study of the history of dynamic psychiatry published in 1970.This work traced the origins of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy back to its 18th-century prehistory in the attempts to heal disease through exorcism, as practiced by the Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner, and from him through the researchers ...

  5. The Social Construction of Reality - Wikipedia

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    The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...

  6. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the ...

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    In Berger's studies, religion was found to be increasingly marginalized by the increased influence of the trend of secularization. Berger identified secularization as happening not so much to social institutions, such as churches, due to the increase of the separation of church and state, but applying to "processes inside the human mind" producing "a secularization of consciousness."

  7. The Discovery of the Unconscious - Wikipedia

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    The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry is a 1970 book about the history of dynamic psychiatry by the Swiss medical historian Henri F. Ellenberger, in which the author discusses such figures as Franz Anton Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Alfred Adler, and Carl Jung.

  8. Kat Dennings 'Had No Idea' What “Sex and the City ... - AOL

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    Related: Kat Dennings and Andrew W.K.'s Relationship Timeline “It was very interesting because, of course, I wasn’t allowed to watch Sex and the City as a child,” Dennings, now 38, told the ...

  9. Little Big Man (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Often described as a satire or parody of the western genre, the book is a modern example of picaresque fiction. Berger made use of a large volume of overlooked first-person primary materials, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, to fashion a wide-ranging and entertaining tale that comments on alienation, identity, and perceptions of reality. [2]