Beyond pleasure : cultures of modern asceticism / edited by Evert Peeters, Leen Van Molle, and Kaat Wils.

Other author Peeters, Evert.
Other author Molle, Leen van, 1953-
Other author Wils, Kaat.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Descriptionviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Modern asceticism: a historical exploration / Evert Peeters, Leen Van Molle, Kaat Wils -- The performance of redemption: asceticism and liberation in Belgian Lebensreform / Evert Peeters -- Asceticism and pleasure in German health reform: patients as clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria / Michael Hau -- Moving images and the popular imagination: visual pleasure and film censorship in comparative perspective / Thomas J. Saunders -- 'The wo that is in marriage': abstinence in practice and principle in British marriages, 1890s-1940s / Lesley A. Hall -- Asceticism in modern social thought / Henk de Smaele -- Adolf Loos and the doric order / Wessel Krul -- Disguised asceticism: the promotion of austerity in interior design during the interwar period in Flanders, Belgium / Sofie De Caigny -- The revelation of a modern saint: Marie Curie's scientific asceticism and the culture of professionalised science / Kaat Wils -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and the linguistic turn in modern asceticism / Klaas van Berkel -- Necessity into virtue: the culture of postwar reconstruction in western Europe between asceticism and anti-asceticism / Marnix Beyen -- Modern asceticism and contemporary body culture / Julia Twigg.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011000951
ISBN9781845457730 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1845457730 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9781845459871 (ebook)
ISBN1845459873 (ebook)

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