Beyond Pleasure : Cultures of Modern Asceticism /

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Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berkel, Klaas van (Contribuidor), Beyen, Marnix (Contribuidor), De Caigny, Sofie (Contribuidor), Hall, Lesley A. (Contribuidor), Hau, Michael (Contribuidor), Krul, Wessel (Contribuidor), Molle, Leen Van (Editor ), Peeters, Evert (Contribuidor, Editor ), Saunders, Thomas J. (Contribuidor), Smaele, Henk de (Contribuidor), Twigg, Julia (Contribuidor), Van Molle, Leen (Contribuidor), Wils, Kaat (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]
Temas:
Asceticism > History.
Civilization, Modern.
HISTORY / Social History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Modern Asceticism: A Historical Exploration
  • Part I: Cult Places of Authenticity
  • Picture 1 The Performance of Redemption: Asceticism and Liberation in Belgian Lebensreform
  • 2 Asceticism and Pleasure in German Health Reform: Patients as Clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria
  • Part II: Social Regulation of Pleasure
  • Picture
  • 3 Moving Images and the Popular Imagination: Visual Pleasure and Film Censorship in Comparative Perspective
  • 4 'The Wo that Is in Marriage': Abstinence in Practice and Principle in British Marriages, 1890s-1940s
  • 5 Asceticism in Modern Social Thought
  • Part III: Aesthetics and Distinction
  • Picture
  • 6 Adolf Loos and the Doric Order
  • 7 Disguised Asceticism: The Promotion of Austerity in Interior Design during the Interwar Period in Flanders, Belgium
  • Part IV: The Lonely Passions of Science
  • Picture
  • 8 The Revelation of a Modern Saint: Marie Curie's Scientific Asceticism and the Culture of Professionalised Science
  • 9 Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and the Linguistic Turn in Modern Asceticism
  • Part V: Discipline in the Age of Affluence
  • Picture
  • 10 Necessity into Virtue: The Culture of Postwar Reconstruction in Western Europe between Asceticism and Anti-Asceticism
  • 11 Modern Asceticism and Contemporary Body Culture
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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