Beyond Pleasure

Beyond PleasureAsceticism, 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

focuses on Nietzsche's later writings

white collar employees

even in its most difficult or obscure moments

Jeremy Arnold critically engages a wide variety of arguments

and further resources

and categories of religious perception

a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France

The people entrenched in the violent communities that the Rosales belong to have been discussed

This book provides answers to all the above questions and more

thought-provoking perspectives of a well-known story

By empowering readers to approach the study of art enriched with ecocritical tools

Following the deaths of his sons