Beyond pleasure : cultures of modern asceticism

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Beyond pleasure : cultures of modern asceticism

edited by Evert Peeters, Leen Van Molle and Kaat Wils

Berghahn Books, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 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.

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Modern Asceticism: A Historical Exploration Evert Peeters, Kaat Wils and Leen Van Molle PART I: CULT PLACES OF AUTHENTICITY Chapter 1. The Performance of Redemption: Asceticism and Liberation in Belgian Lebensreform Evert Peeters Chapter 2. Asceticism and Pleasure in German Health Reform: Patients as Clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria Michael Hau PART II: SOCIAL REGULATION OF PLEASURE Chapter 3. Moving Images and the Popular Imagination: Visual Pleasure and Film Censorship in Comparative Perspective Thomas J. Saunders Chapter 4. 'The Wo that Is in Marriage': Abstinence in Practice and Principle in British Marriages, 1890s-1940s Lesley A. Hall Chapter 5. Ascetiscism in Modern Social Thought Henk de Smaele PART III: AESTHETICS AND DISCTINCTION Chapter 6. Adolf Loos and the Doric Order Wessel Krul Chapter 7. Disguised Asceticism: The Promotion of Austerity in Interior Design during the Interwar Period in Flanders, Belgium Sofie De Caigny PART IV: THE LONELY PASSIONS OF SCIENCE Chapter 8. The Revelation of a Modern Saint: Marie Curie's Scientific Asceticism and the Culture of Professionalised Science Kaat Wils Chapter 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and the Linguistic Turn in Modern Asceticism Klass Berkel PART V: DISCIPLINE IN THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE Chapter 10. Necessity into Virtue: The Culture of Postwar Reconstruction in Western Europe between Asceticism and Anti-Asceticism Marnix Beyen Chapter 11. Modern Asceticism and Contemporary Body Culture Julia Twigg Notes on Contributors Index

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