LIBIDO DOMINANDI: seks jako narzędzie kontroli społecznej

"Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices." – St. Augustine, City of God Writing at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, St. Augustine both revolutionized and brought to a close antiquity’s idea of freedom. A man was not a slave by nature or by law, as Aristotle claimed. His freedom was a function of his moral state. A man had as many masters as he had vices. This insight would provide the basis for the most sophisticated form of social control known to man. Fourteen hundred years later, a decadent French aristocrat turned that tradition on its head when he wrote that "the freest of people are they who are most friendly to murder." Like St. Augustine, the Marquis de Sade would agree that freedom was a function of morals. Unlike St. Augustine, Sade proposed a revolution in sexual morals to accompany the political revolution then taking place in France. Libido Dominandi – the term is taken from Book I of Augustine’s City of God – is the definitive history of that sexual revolution, from 1773 to the present. Unlike the standard version of the sexual revolution, Libido Dominandi shows how sexual liberation was from its inception a form of control. Those who wished to liberate man from the moral order needed to impose social controls as soon as they succeeded because liberated libido led inevitably to anarchy. Aldous Huxley wrote in his preface to the 1946 edition of Brave New World that "as political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." This book is about the converse of that statement. It explains how the rhetoric of sexual freedom was used to engineer a system of covert political and social control. Over the course of the two-hundred-year span covered by this book, the development of technologies of communication, reproduction, and psychic control – including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, sensitivity training, pornography, and plain old blackmail – allowed the Enlightenment and its heirs to turn Augustine’s insight on its head and create masters out of men’s vices. Libido Dominandi is the story of how that happened. Writing at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, St. Augustine both revolutionized and brought to a close antiquity's idea of freedom. A man was not a slave by nature or by law, as Aristotle claimed. His freedom was a function of his moral state. A man had as many masters as he had vices. This insight would provide the basis for the most sophisticated form of social control known to man.Fourteen hundred years later, in a world eager to reject the intellectual patrimony of the West, a decadent French aristocrat turned that tradition on its head when he wrote that "the freest of people are they who are most friendly to murder." Like St. Augustine, the Marquis de Sade would agree that freedom was a function of morals. Freedom for the Marquis de Sade, however, meant a willingness to reject the moral law. Unlike St. Augustine, the Marquis de Sade proposed a revolution in sexual mores to accompany the political revolution then taking place in France. Libido Dominandi - the term is take from Book I of Augustine's City of God - is the definitive history of that sexual revolution, from 1773 to the present.Unlike the standard version of sexual revolution, Libido Dominandi shows how sexual liberation was from its inception a form of control. The logic is clear enough: Those who wished to liberate man from the moral order needed to impose social controls as soon as they succeeded because liberated libido led inevitably to anarchy. Over the course of two hundred years, those techniques became more and more refined, eventuating in a world where people were controlled, not by military force, but by the skillful management of their passions. It was Aldous Huxley who wrote in his preface to the 1946 edition of Brave New World that "as political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." This book is about the converse of that statement. It explains how the rhetoric of sexual freedom was used to engineer a system of covert political and social control. Over the course of the two-hundred-year span covered by this book, the development of technologies of communciation, reproduction, and psychic control - including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, sensitivity training, pornography, and, when push came to shove, plain old blackmail - allowed the Enlightenment and its heirs to turn Augustine's insight on its head and create masters out of men's vices. Libido Dominandi is the story of how that happened. "Writing at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, St. Augustine both revolutionized and brought to a close antiquity's idea of freedom. A man was not a slave by nature or by law, as Aristotle claimed. His freedom was a function of his moral state. A man had as many masters as he had vices. This insight would provide the basis for the most sophisticated form of social control known to man." "Fourteen hundred years later, a decadent French aristocrat turned that tradition on its head when he wrote that "the freest of people are they who are most friendly to murder." Like St. Augustine, the Marquis de Sade would agree that freedom was a function of morals. Unlike St. Augustine, Sade proposed a revolution in sexual morals to accompany the political revolution then taking place in France. Libido Dominandi - the term is taken from Book I of Augustine's City of God - is the definitive history of that sexual revolution, from 1773 to the present." "Unlike the standard version of the sexual revolution, Libido Dominandi shows how sexual liberation was from its inception a form of control. Those who wished to liberate man from the moral order needed to impose social controls as soon as they succeeded because liberated libido led inevitably to anarchy. Aldous Huxley wrote in his preface to the 1946 edition of Brave New World that "as political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." This book is about the converse of that statement. It explains how the rhetoric of sexual freedom was used to engineer a system of covert political and social control. Over the course of the two-hundred-year span covered by this book, the development of technologies of communication, reproduction, and psychic control - including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, sensitivity training, pornography, and plain old blackmail - allowed the Enlightenment and its heirs to turn Augustine's insight on its head and create masters out of men's vices. Libido Dominandi is the story of how that happened."--BOOK JACKET SPIS TREŚCI 1 WSTĘP 6 TOM I 15 ROZDZIAŁ 1 INGOLSTADT, 1776 15 ROZDZIAŁ 2 PARYŻ, 1787 28 ROZDZIAŁ 3 LONDYN, 1790 44 ROZDZIAŁ 4 PARYŻ, 1792 54 ROZDZIAŁ 5 LONDYN, 1797 76 ROZDZIAŁ 6 LONDYN, 1812 85 ROZDZIAŁ 7 PARYŻ, 1821 105 TOM II 113 ROZDZIAŁ 1 PARYŻ, 1895 113 ROZDZIAŁ 2 CHICAGO, 1895 118 ROZDZIAŁ 3 BREMA, 1895 129 ROZDZIAŁ 4 GREENWICH VILLAGE, 1913 147 ROZDZIAŁ 5 ZURYCH, 1914 153 ROZDZIAŁ 6 NOWY JORK, 1914 158 ROZDZIAŁ 7 BALTIMORE, 1916 167 ROZDZIAŁ 8 PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, 1916 173 ROZDZIAŁ 9 NOWY JORK, 1917 197 ROZDZIAŁ 10 WERSAL, 1919 206 ROZDZIAŁ 11 BALTIMORE, 1919 211 ROZDZIAŁ 12 BERLIN, 1919 216 ROZDZIAŁ 13 NOWY JORK, 1921 225 ROZDZIAŁ 14 NOWY JORK, 1922 232 ROZDZIAŁ 15 MOSKWA, 1922 247 ROZDZIAŁ 16 MOSKWA, 1922 260 ROZDZIAŁ 17 MOSKWA, 1926 270 ROZDZIAŁ 18 WIEDEŃ, 1927 276 ROZDZIAŁ 19 NOWY JORK, 1929 282 ROZDZIAŁ 20 BERLIN, 1929 287 ROZDZIAŁ 21 BERLIN, 1930 299 ROZDZIAŁ 22 MOSKWA, 1930 302 ROZDZIAŁ 23 WASZYNGTON, 1930 310 ROZDZIAŁ 24 NOWY JORK, 1934 323 ROZDZIAŁ 25 NOWY JORK, 1932 334 TOM III 345 ROZDZIAŁ 1 NOWY JORK, 1940 345 ROZDZIAŁ 2 NOWY JORK, 1941 353 ROZDZIAŁ 3 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA,1942 366 ROZDZIAŁ 4 NOWY JORK, 1947 377 ROZDZIAŁ 5 NOWY JORK, 1947 382 ROZDZIAŁ 6 DARTMOUTH, 1947 390 ROZDZIAŁ 7 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA,1950 406 ROZDZIAŁ 8 WASZYNGTON, D.C., 1957 421 ROZDZIAŁ 9 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, 1962 446 ROZDZIAŁ 10 WASZYNGTON, 1964 462 ROZDZIAŁ 11 WASZYNGTON, 1965,RZYM, 1965 479 ROZDZIAŁ 12 WASZYNGTON, LISTOPAD 1965 501 ROZDZIAŁ 13 LOS ANGELES, 1966 512 ROZDZIAŁ 14 NOWY JORK, 1969 557 ROZDZIAŁ 15 NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, 1970 564 ROZDZIAŁ 16 HIALEAH, FLORYDA, 1970 572 ROZDZIAŁ 17 WASZYNGTON, 1974 578 ROZDZIAŁ 18 FILADELFIA, 1976 595 ROZDZIAŁ 19 EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, 1981 611 ROZDZIAŁ 20 WASZYNGTON, 1981 626 ROZDZIAŁ 21 WASZYNGTON, 1992 642 PRZYPISY 667 BIBLIOGRAFIA 698 "Libido Dominandi is the definitive history of a sexual revolution, from 1773 to the present.". "Unlike the standard version of a sexual revolution, Libido Dominandi shows how sexual liberation was from its inception a form of control. The logic is clear enough: Those who wished to liberate man from the moral order needed to impose social controls as soon as they succeeded because liberated libido inevitably led to anarchy. Over the course of two hundred years, those techniques became more and more refined, eventuating in a world where people were controlled, not by military force, but by the skillful management of their passions. It was Aldous Huxley who wrote in his preface to the 1946 edition of Brave New World that "as political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." This book is about the converse of that statement. It explains how the rhetoric of sexual freedom was used to engineer a system of covert political and social control. Over the course of the two-hundred-year span covered by this book, the development of technologies of communication, reproduction, and psychic control - including psychotherapy, behaviorism, advertising, sensitivity training, pornography, and, when push came to shove, plain old blackmail - allowed the Enlightenment and its heirs to turn Augustine's insight on its head and create masters out of men's vices. Libido Dominandi is the story of how that happened."--BOOK JACKET.