Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion - Softcover

Roudinesco, Pro Élisabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745645933 ISBN 13: 9780745645933

Verlag: Polity, 2009

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Críticas

"In this provocative, timely, and engaging study of famous perverse figures, Elisabeth Roudinesco offers us a 'dark mirror' for human experience. She persuasively argues that because perversion is a uniquely human activity, it allows us to gain access to aspects of the human psyche that are normally hidden from view. By examining case histories of perversion throughout history, Roudinesco shows that perverts provide us with a disturbing reflection of the dark side of the very human societies in which they perform their extreme acts." Elissa Marder, Emory University "This fascinating book takes us from the question of the origin of the perverse through its semiotic displacements in Christianity and libertinism, by way of Freud as a thinker of the dark Enlightenment, into the emergence of contemporary biocracy and genocide as delight in evil. Required reading for all studies of the history of consciousness." Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Reseña del editor

Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with it in its own way.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0745645933
• ISBN 13: 9780745645933
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194