In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Largier, Niklaus

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation...
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Author: Niklaus Largier
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Language: English
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Largier, Niklaus

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal

€92,58

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal

€92,58
Author: Niklaus Largier
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval relgious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical texts and images, Niklaus Largier explores the emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices. From early modern pornography to the Marquis de Sade and the fantasies of Swinburne and Joyce, the erotic and devotional imagination drew on the whip.

Largier explores how the Reformation and Counter-Reformation problematized the medieval culture of arousal. The stimulating qualities of medieval visual displays, especially flagellant practices, processions, and spectacles, were subjected to a criticsm that sought to control the imagination.

In modern bourgeois life the practice, effects, and imagery of flagellation became a central site of the investigation into concerns and anxieties about exercising emotional self-control and censoring fantasy. 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 discourse, had obliterated. Such histories 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.

Author: Niklaus Largier
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 05/18/2007
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9781890951658
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/08/2007 pg. 18

About the Author

Niklaus Largier is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Religious Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Zeit, Zeitlichkeit, Ewigkeit and Diogenes der Kyniker. He is also the editor of the selected writings of Meister Eckhart.


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