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Beyond Pleasure

Cultures of Modern Asceticism
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262 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am01.04.2011
Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evoke 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 as the fashionable irritation...mehr
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KlappentextAsceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evoke 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 as the fashionable irritation...
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84545-773-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum01.04.2011
Seiten262 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht537 g
Artikel-Nr.22700931
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Modern Asceticism: A Historical ExplorationEvert Peeters, Kaat Wils and Leen Van MollePART I: CULT PLACES OF AUTHENTICITYChapter 1. The Performance of Redemption: Asceticism and Liberation in Belgian LebensreformEvert PeetersChapter 2. Asceticism and Pleasure in German Health Reform: Patients as Clients in Wilhelmine SanatoriaMichael HauPART II: SOCIAL REGULATION OF PLEASUREChapter 3. Moving Images and the Popular Imagination: Visual Pleasure and Film Censorship in Comparative PerspectiveThomas J. SaundersChapter 4. The Wo that Is in Marriage´: Abstinence in Practice and Principle in British Marriages, 1890s-1940sLesley A. HallChapter 5. Ascetiscism in Modern Social ThoughtHenk de SmaelePART III: AESTHETICS AND DISCTINCTIONChapter 6. Adolf Loos and the Doric OrderWessel KrulChapter 7. Disguised Asceticism: The Promotion of Austerity in Interior Design during the Interwar Period in Flanders, BelgiumSofie De CaignyPART IV: THE LONELY PASSIONS OF SCIENCEChapter 8. The Revelation of a Modern Saint: Marie Curie´s Scientific Asceticism and the Culture of Professionalised ScienceKaat WilsChapter 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and the Linguistic Turn in Modern AsceticismKlass BerkelPART V: DISCIPLINE IN THE AGE OF AFFLUENCEChapter 10. Necessity into Virtue: The Culture of Postwar Reconstruction in Western Europe between Asceticism and Anti-AsceticismMarnix BeyenChapter 11. Modern Asceticism and Contemporary Body CultureJulia TwiggNotes on ContributorsIndexmehr

Autor

Leen Van Molle teaches contemporary social history at the University of Leuven. Her main research interests are in rural and gender history. She has recently published on Belgian women entrepreneurs, the history of allotment gardening and an overview of recent research on rural history in the North Sea area.