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Beyond Pleasure - Cultures of Modern Asceticism (Hardcover)
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Beyond Pleasure - Cultures of Modern Asceticism (Hardcover)
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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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