Chastity Plot

"There is a compelling story to be told about the rise, fall, and transfiguration of the ideal of chastity, and Lisabeth During is the perfect person to tell it. In The Chastity Plot, During reveals how the obsession with chastity has played a powerful role in the history of our moral imagination. The metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. The demand for chastity has shaped social institutions and figured in the construction of political power; sexual renunciation has been an ornament to sainthood and a technique of ascetics both sacred and profane"--

About the author

Lisabeth During is associate professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Lisabeth During, During Lisabeth
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780226741468
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74146-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval