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ASCETICISM AND SEXUALITY

THE "TRUMPERY OF NATURE" IN BERGSON'S THE TWO SOURCES OF MORALITY AND RELIGION

"Asceticism and Sexuality" is a strange, perhaps even jarring title if you know anything about Bergson's works. Yet I think that Bergson's 1932 The Two Sources of Morality and Religion his last and only work entirely devoted to ethics, revolves around this duality or this doubling: asceticism and sexuality.1 Obviously, such a title makes us think not of Bergson but of Foucault, and indeed my reflections on The Two Sources are partly inspired by Foucault. In the Introduction to his second ...

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