The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Brook, Daniel
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Brook, Daniel

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous)...
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Author: Daniel Brook
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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Brook, Daniel

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

$50.02
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin by Brook, Daniel

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

$50.02
Author: Daniel Brook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he's been largely forgotten.

Journalist Daniel Brook retraces Hirschfeld's rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In an era when gay sex was a crime and gender roles rigid, Hirschfeld taught that each of us is their own unique mixture of masculinity and femininity. Through his public advocacy for gay rights and his private counseling of patients toward self-acceptance, he became the intellectual impresario of Berlin's cabaret scene and helped turn his hometown into the world's queer capital. But he also enraged the Nazis, who ransacked his Institute for Sexual Science and burned his books

Driven from his homeland, Hirschfeld traveled to America, Asia, and the Middle East to research sexuality on a global scale. Through his harrowing lived experience of antisemitic persecution and a pivotal late-in-life interracial romance, he came to see that race, like gender, was a human invention. Hirschfeld spent his final years in exile trying to warn the world of the genocidal dangers of racism.

Rich in passion and intellect, The Einstein of Sex at last brings together this unsung icon's work on sexuality, gender, and race and recovers the visionary who first saw beyond the binaries. A century after his groundbreaking work--as the fights for personal freedom and societal acceptance rage on--Hirschfeld's gift for thinking beyond the confines of his world has much to teach us



Author: Daniel Brook
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781324007241


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 03/10/2025

About the Author
Brook, Daniel: - Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Nation, and New York Times Magazine, and he is the author of several books, including A History of Future Cities and The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A New York native and a Yale graduate, Brook lives in New Orleans. He researched The Einstein of Sex in Berlin on a Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship.
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