{"product_id":"beyond-pleasure-cultures-of-modern-asceticism-9781845457730","title":"Beyond Pleasure: Cultures of Modern Asceticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAsceticism, 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 as the fashionable irritation with the presumed modern-day laziness. In the very texture of contemporary culture, age-old asceticism proves to be remarkably alive. Old ascetic forms were remoulded to serve modern desires for personal authenticity, an authenticity that disconnected asceticism in the course of the nineteenth century from two traditions that had underpinned it since classical antiquity: the public, republican austerity of antiquity and the private, religious asceticism of Christianity. Exploring various aspects such as the history of the body, of aesthetics, science, and social thought in several European countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Belgium), the authors show that modern asceticism remains a deeply ambivalent category. Apart from self-realisation, classical and religious examples continue to haunt the ascetic mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Modern Asceticism: A Historical Exploration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEvert Peeters, Kaat Wils and Leen Van Molle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: CULT PLACES OF AUTHENTICITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Performance of Redemption: Asceticism and Liberation in Belgian \u003cem\u003eLebensreform\u003cbr\u003e \tEvert Peeters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Asceticism and Pleasure in German Health Reform: Patients as Clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Hau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: SOCIAL REGULATION OF PLEASURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moving Images and the Popular Imagination: Visual Pleasure and Film Censorship in Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas J. Saunders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003e‘The Wo that Is in Marriage’: Abstinence in Practice and Principle in British Marriages, 1890s–1940s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLesley A. Hall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eAscetiscism in Modern Social Thought\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHenk de Smaele\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: AESTHETICS AND DISCTINCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Adolf Loos and the Doric Order\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWessel Krul\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Disguised Asceticism: The Promotion of Austerity in Interior Design during the Interwar Period in Flanders, Belgium\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSofie De Caigny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: THE LONELY PASSIONS OF SCIENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Revelation of a Modern Saint: Marie Curie’s Scientific Asceticism and the Culture of Professionalised Science\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKaat Wils\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ludwig Wittgenstein, the \u003cem\u003eTractatus\u003c\/em\u003e and the Linguistic Turn in Modern Asceticism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKlass Berkel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART V: DISCIPLINE IN THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Necessity into Virtue: The Culture of Postwar Reconstruction in Western Europe between Asceticism and Anti-Asceticism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarnix Beyen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eModern Asceticism and Contemporary Body Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJulia Twigg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042987475287,"sku":"9781845457730","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845457730.jpg?v=1750956539","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-pleasure-cultures-of-modern-asceticism-9781845457730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}