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Masochism by Gilles. Deleuze and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherZone Books

ISBN-100942299558

ISBN-139780942299557

eBay Product ID (ePID)507722

Product Key Features

Book TitleMasochism

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / French, General

Publication Year1991

IllustratorYes

FeaturesReprint

GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

AuthorGilles. Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN88-020823

Reviews"This provocative work places von Sacher-Masoch's classic 1870 novel Venus in Furs next to Deleuze's essay arguing that popular assumptions beginning with Freud have effectively obscured the unique power of von Sacher-Masoch's eroticism as well as the true nature of what might be called a masochist 'order.'" -Keith Thompson, Utne Reader

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal306.776092

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisIn his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-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 a part. Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch's novels was written in 1870 and 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 do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's eroticism., Gilles Deleuze examines the work of the late-nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher--Masoch., 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.

LC Classification NumberPT2461