In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 189095165X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-18 |
| Language | : | German |
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Modern references to flagellant practice in the works of Swinburne, Proust, and Joyce testified not only to a "decadent" fascination with "medieval" cultures or "perverse sexuality," but also to a fascination that nineteenth-century censorship, informed by psychopathological discourses, had obliterated. Such evocations of flagellation, Largier explains, were attempts to recover a culture of stimulation and imagination--both erotic and devotional--that transcended the modern boundaries of sexuality.. The stimulating qualities of medieval visual displays, e
" In Praise of the Whip remains an intelligent and thoughtful work that shows great understanding of the role of flagellation in religious and sexual contexts. This is a work that escapes from narrow and often prurient readings of flagellatoruy processes that have often dominated academic writing on the subject." Times Higher Education Supplement"The history of arousal that Largier offers is thus very near the heart of the history of being human, that is, the history of being creat
"A Ripping History" according to Rob Hardy. We are all addicted to pleasure in many different forms; why is it that so many of us are addicted to pain? I don't mean pain of loneliness, or pain of heartbreak, or existential pain - I mean the unmetaphoric physical pain of the whip that has been used for centuries as a sacrament, a salutary, or a stimulant. The love of the whip is too strange for s
He is the author of Zeit, Zeitlichkeit, Ewigkeit and Diogenes der Kyniker. He is also the editor of the selected writings of Meister Eckhart.. Niklaus Largier is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Religious Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley