false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171292303m/94654.jpg 94654 4 In his stunning essay, <I>Coldness and Cruelty, </i>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.<br /> <br /> <I>Venus in Furs, </i>the most famous of all of Masoch's novels was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled <I>The Heritage of Cain. </i>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. 783324 19 3 1989 Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs total:180|5:56|4:68|3:40|2:13|1:3| 180 701 265 15 94654 0942299558 9780942299557 177 15 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171292303m/94654.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94654.Masochism_Coldness_and_Cruelty_Venus_in_Furs 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 09 17:25:47 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 17:27:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 94654 0942299558 9780942299557 177 15 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171292303m/94654.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94654.Masochism_Coldness_and_Cruelty_Venus_in_Furs 3 1 false Fri Mar 30 10:49:17 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 11:15:34 -0700 2007
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