De la izgoniri la izbăviri
From Expulsion to Salvation

Summary/Abstract: The history of mankind seems to be marked by a whole series of social movements, ignored by authorities in the past, which were generated by a recurrent nostalgia for Paradise. The heresies of the Adamites are among the first cases of this kind. Systematic persecutions did not manage to completely solve the problem of nudist anarchists since after the Adamites had disappeared in the 17th century, new movements with similar goals emerged. Echoing the ideals of the Renaissance, the principles of Enlightenment encouraged Man’s return to nature, while the actual embodiment of these values only occurred in the 19th century. The Paradise utopias are taken down from the abstract spheres of philosophy into everyday reality by the founders of the “Monte Verità” community. The phenomenon of the liberal society of Ascona launches a revival of the European avant-garde and of the nudist movement in Germany, France and England subsequently. The Freikörperkultur (Free Body Culture) of Germany demonstrates the direct influence that the nudist ideology had on political and social concepts. The expansion of the movement for the freedom of the naked body is still going on today.

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