|
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
|
Buy Now
Sexual Myths of Modernity - Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,132
Discovery Miles 31 320
|
|
|
Sexual Myths of Modernity - Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century
alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass
killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social
progress, so that perversions were always related either to
degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later
Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their
repression under the demands of modern European civilization.
Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked
within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence,
crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained
its currency in European thought after the Second World War as
Freudian-influenced accounts of the history of philosophy
configured the Marquis de Sade as a kind of Kantian "superego" in a
framework that viewed the Western Enlightenment as unraveled by its
own inner demons. In this way, a straight line was imagined from
the late eighteenth century to the Holocaust. These ideas have had
an ongoing legacy in debates about sexual perversion, feminism,
genocide representation, and historical memory of Nazism. However,
recent genocide research has massively debunked assumptions that
perpetrators of mass violence are especially sexually motivated in
their cruelty. This book considers how the late twentieth-century
imagination eroticized Nazism for its own ends, but also how it has
been informed by nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of
mass violence as a sexual problem.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
