Masochism

Masochism - Paperback

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Masochism - Paperback

Masochism - Paperback

by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch , Gilles Deleuze
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In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism: their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them -- Masoch and Sade -- lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles apart.

Venus in Furs, the most famous of Masoch's novels, belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes, including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here -- fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness -- these received associations do not eclipse the truly singular and surprising power of Masoch's eroticism.
ISBN9780942299557
Author Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch , Gilles Deleuze
PublisherZone Books
GenreLiterature and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 1991
LanguageENG- English
Pages296
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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By Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
About Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Austrian author and journalist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-95) enjoyed a fantasy- and fetish-oriented sex life of such legendary proportions that his name serves as the origin of the term masochism.
About Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a prolific French philosopher and author of 25 books. A self-described pure metaphysician, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and was known for a style that forced readers to reevaluate their philosophical assumptions. Deleuze, along with close friend and colleague Feliz Guattari, wrote a two-volume work on anti-psychoanalytic social philosophy called Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The first volume, Anti-Oedipus, is their best-known work.

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