The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and CriticismUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 janv. 2011 - 344 pages In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a "discourse of resistance," a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us. |
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... appear now not as intrinsically unnatural and perverse but rather as an intensification , a repetition , of the earliest and most instinctive psychic and cultural developments . The interest of the early Christian experience , then , is ...
... appear now not as intrinsically unnatural and perverse but rather as an intensification , a repetition , of the earliest and most instinctive psychic and cultural developments . The interest of the early Christian experience , then , is ...
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... appears to deny the body , or at least to oppose it . But , again , asceticism does not oppose the body in any simple way . For by characterizing an entire life as an " imitation of Christ , ” or as " a pattern for believers ...
... appears to deny the body , or at least to oppose it . But , again , asceticism does not oppose the body in any simple way . For by characterizing an entire life as an " imitation of Christ , ” or as " a pattern for believers ...
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... appears to recognize that perfection in this sense is impossible to attain , the differences between accounts and lives being substantial , but he still maintains that virtue resides in the effort . The poetic function operates at the ...
... appears to recognize that perfection in this sense is impossible to attain , the differences between accounts and lives being substantial , but he still maintains that virtue resides in the effort . The poetic function operates at the ...
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... appears that the value of the written word is at war with the writing , or as if " what was profitable ” were polluted by the ink . The emergent system might be represented by a three - part division : ( 1 ) Mind , or the “ heart ...
... appears that the value of the written word is at war with the writing , or as if " what was profitable ” were polluted by the ink . The emergent system might be represented by a three - part division : ( 1 ) Mind , or the “ heart ...
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... appears crude and primitive . In the context of contemporary theory , this discussion , too , may appear primitive , an attempt to set theory back 1600 years ; and in a certain sense that is right . For while theory has advanced in many ...
... appears crude and primitive . In the context of contemporary theory , this discussion , too , may appear primitive , an attempt to set theory back 1600 years ; and in a certain sense that is right . For while theory has advanced in many ...
Table des matières
II Discipline and Desire in Augustines Confessions | 89 |
Grünewalds Isenheim Altar | 135 |
IV Philosophy and the Resistance to Asceticism | 201 |
V The Ascetics of Interpretation | 237 |
Notes | 271 |
Works Cited | 297 |
Index | 315 |
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