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Masochism Coldness and Cruelty and Venus in Furs

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ISBN-10: 0942299558

ISBN-13: 9780942299557

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Jean McNeil, Aude Willm

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In 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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 3/19/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Gilles Deleuze was professor of philosophy at the Universit� de Paris VIII until his retirement in 1987. His books include Nietzsche and Philosophy, Dialogues,and The Logic of Sense,all published by Columbia.

Coldness and Cruelty
Foreword
The Language of Sade and Masoch
The Role of Descriptions
Are Sade and Masoch Complementary?
The Three Women in Masoch
Father and Mother
The Art of Masoch
Humor, Irony and the Law
From Contract to Ritual
Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Masochism
The Death Instinct
Sadistic Superego and Masochistic Ego
Venus in Furs
(Complete Text)
A Childhood Memory and Reflections on the Novel
Two Contracts of Masoch
The Adventure with Ludwig II