Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty is a 1967 book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, originally published in French as Le Froid et le Cruel, in which the author philosophically examines the work of the l
Cover of the first edition
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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in
Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
…The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan described it as "undoubtedly the best text that has ever been written" on masochism. The critic Camille Paglia expressed a favorable view of Masochism, commenting that she "liked Gilles Deleuze's book on masochism". Sexuality historian Alison M. Moore notes that…
Paglia in 2017