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In praise of the whip : a cultural history of arousal / Niklaus Largier ; translated by Graham Harman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Largier, Niklaus, 1957-
- Standardized Title:
- Lob der Peitsche. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Flagellation--History.
- Flagellation.
- Sadomasochism--History.
- Sadomasochism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distrubuted by the MIT Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices, as seen in religious, literary, and medical texts and images.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Ascesis
- I Suffering, Transfiguration, and the Scourge 35
- II In Praise of the Whip 75
- III The Theater of the Flagellants 101
- IV Arousing Images 175
- Part 2 Erotics
- V The Priest, the Woman, and the Divine Marquis 221
- VI The "English Vice" 333
- Part 3 Therapeutics
- VII The "Healing Whip" 369
- VIII Pico's Friend; or, The Basis of Flagellomania 425.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Lob der Peitsche.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-513) and index.
- ISBN:
- 189095165X
- 9781890951658
- 1890951668
- 9781890951665
- OCLC:
- 65207157
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