Beyond pleasure : cultures of modern asceticism
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Modern Asceticism: A Historical Exploration Evert Peeters, Kaat Wils and Leen Van Molle Part I: Cult Places of Authenticity Chapter 1. The Performance of Redemption: Asceticism and Liberation in Belgian Lebensreform Evert Peeters Chapter 2. Asceticism and Pleasure in German Health Reform: Patients as Clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria Michael Hau Part II: Social Regulation of Pleasure Chapter 3. Moving Images and the Popular Imagination: Visual Pleasure and Film Censorship in Comparative Perspective Thomas J. Saunders Chapter 4. 'The Wo that Is in Marriage': Abstinence in Practice and Principle in British Marriages, 1890s-1940s Lesley A. Hall Chapter 5. Asceticism in Modern Social Thought Henk de Smaele Part III: Aesthetics and Distinction Chapter 6. Adolf Loos and the Doric Order Wessel Krul Chapter 7. Disguised Asceticism: The Promotion of Austerity in Interior Design during the Interwar Period in Flanders, Belgium Sofie De Caigny Part IV: The Lonely Passions of Science Chapter 8. The Revelation of a Modern Saint: Marie Curie's Scientific Asceticism and the Culture of Professionalised Science Kaat Wils Chapter 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and the Linguistic Turn in Modern Asceticism Klaas van Berkel Part V: Discipline in the Age of Affluence Chapter 10. Necessity into Virtue: The Culture of Postwar Reconstruction in Western Europe between Asceticism and Anti-Asceticism Marnix Beyen Chapter 11. Modern Asceticism and Contemporary Body Culture Julia Twigg Notes on Contributors Index