Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion

by ElisabethRoudinesco (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $69.81

  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'. This book tells the history of perversion in the West.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $21.48

  Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? This title presents the history of perversion in the West through a study of great emblematic figures from the Middle Ages, the eighteenth century (Sade), the nineteenth century to modern times (Nazism in the 20th century, and the complementary figures of the paedophile and the terrorist in the 21st).