In Praise of the Whip - Table of Contents - The MIT Press

April 2007
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In Praise of the Whip
A Cultural History of Arousal
Niklaus Largier
Translated by Graham Harman

	Acknowledgments	11

	Introduction	13

	PART ONE: ASCESIS

I	Suffering, Transfiguration, and the Scourge	35

II	In Praise of the Whip	75

III	The Theater of Flagellants	101

IV	Arousing Images	175

	PART TWO: EROTICS

V	The Priest, the Woman, and the Divine Marquis	221

VI	The "English Vice"	333

	PART THREE: THERAPEUTICS

VII	The "Healing Whip"	369

VIII	Pico's Friend; or, the Basis of Flagellomania	425

	Epilogue	445

	Notes	457

	Bibliography	471

	Photo Credits	514

	Index	515

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