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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... Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of Representation : Grünewald's Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and the Medieval 137 Conceptual Narrative 174 3 A Passion of Representation 186 Asceticism ...
... Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of Representation : Grünewald's Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and the Medieval 137 Conceptual Narrative 174 3 A Passion of Representation 186 Asceticism ...
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... ascesis that 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 ...
... ascesis that 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 ...
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... ascesis , a deadening , a purging of materiality and mutability that anticipates the release of the soul from the body at death . Hence for the early Christians textuality was closely linked with martyrdom , which lent a purpose and ...
... ascesis , a deadening , a purging of materiality and mutability that anticipates the release of the soul from the body at death . Hence for the early Christians textuality was closely linked with martyrdom , which lent a purpose and ...
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... ascesis of language : not only is it based on an arbitrary code , but in its inert material form it stands outside the world . Textual self - representation can even prefigure death and redemption.14 ( Derrida has come under fierce ...
... ascesis of language : not only is it based on an arbitrary code , but in its inert material form it stands outside the world . Textual self - representation can even prefigure death and redemption.14 ( Derrida has come under fierce ...
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... ceaseless struggle towards a goal that is always unreachable , a goal whose realization is blocked by the very methods of achieving it . Technique and the Self 2 Ascesis ( the impulse to 18 The Ideology of Asceticism.
... ceaseless struggle towards a goal that is always unreachable , a goal whose realization is blocked by the very methods of achieving it . Technique and the Self 2 Ascesis ( the impulse to 18 The Ideology of Asceticism.
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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