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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... body " made of himself “ a beautiful example and pattern to believers ” ( ch . 9 : 58 ) . An entire ideology is condensed here , involving self - denial , belief in God , and the tireless effort to starve out or punish the animal ...
... body " made of himself “ a beautiful example and pattern to believers ” ( ch . 9 : 58 ) . An entire ideology is condensed here , involving self - denial , belief in God , and the tireless effort to starve out or punish the animal ...
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... body ; discipline makes the body intelligible by indicating the presence of a principle of stability and immobility within the constantly changing physical being We look to a work of art for evidence of a will seeking expression by ...
... body ; discipline makes the body intelligible by indicating the presence of a principle of stability and immobility within the constantly changing physical being We look to a work of art for evidence of a will seeking expression by ...
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... body ” — in a relationship of interdependence so that both opposition and relation are maintained . Text and reader , we could say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a ...
... body ” — in a relationship of interdependence so that both opposition and relation are maintained . Text and reader , we could say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a ...
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... body . The contention of the polemical fifth part is that interpretation theory , alternating between modes of formalism and modes of subjectivism , is structurally and permanently an ascetic undertaking . I argue that the frequently ...
... body . The contention of the polemical fifth part is that interpretation theory , alternating between modes of formalism and modes of subjectivism , is structurally and permanently an ascetic undertaking . I argue that the frequently ...
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... body " of writing . According to Jacques Derrida , all linguistic theories that distinguish a “ body ” of writing from a “ soul ” of speech - or indeed any system that produces such hierarchized oppositions -- is implicitly metaphysical ...
... body " of writing . According to Jacques Derrida , all linguistic theories that distinguish a “ body ” of writing from a “ soul ” of speech - or indeed any system that produces such hierarchized oppositions -- is implicitly metaphysical ...
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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