Beyond Pleasure Prof Gulsun Akdemir Evrendilek

Beyond Pleasure Prof Gulsun Akdemir EvrendilekAsceticism, 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

spanning half a century in disparate locations

Critical Essays on Israeli Society

the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate

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Humphrey Pump

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Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migrant in the Global South provides fresh understandings of mobility flows

Paolo Diego Bubbio offers an alternative to standard philosophical accounts of the notion of sacrifice

cast for the Berlin museums in the course of a major casting project in the 1870s

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providing material for stimulating and worthwhile discussion

as the men reflect on their strivings and the dreams they hope to fulfill