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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... constitute “ mastery over the body as opposed to the body's mastery over the self - could virtue be acquired , attested to , or proven . The pseudoClement characterizes the entire struggle in aesthetic terms because it is symbolic ...
... constitute “ mastery over the body as opposed to the body's mastery over the self - could virtue be acquired , attested to , or proven . The pseudoClement characterizes the entire struggle in aesthetic terms because it is symbolic ...
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... constitute not a critique of but rather a form of commitment to " a voracious consumer society . ” Art , he claims , is " not in principle hostile ” to exercises of capitalistic power ( “ Fictitious Dealings ” 170 ) . This dispute bears ...
... constitute not a critique of but rather a form of commitment to " a voracious consumer society . ” Art , he claims , is " not in principle hostile ” to exercises of capitalistic power ( “ Fictitious Dealings ” 170 ) . This dispute bears ...
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... constitutes the ground of agreement between art and capitalism . The economies of art and capitalism are comparable in the ... constitute true oppositions but resistances , and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic ...
... constitutes the ground of agreement between art and capitalism . The economies of art and capitalism are comparable in the ... constitute true oppositions but resistances , and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic ...
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... constitute Derrida's subtler naiveté . Between them , Bakhtin and Derrida seem to have done away with the nostalgias of logocentrism , but they may have destroyed each other in the process for they stand in near - perfect contradiction ...
... constitute Derrida's subtler naiveté . Between them , Bakhtin and Derrida seem to have done away with the nostalgias of logocentrism , but they may have destroyed each other in the process for they stand in near - perfect contradiction ...
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... constitutes an 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 ...
... constitutes an 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 ...
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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