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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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. THE Ascetic Imperative Culture AND Criticism THE Ascetic Imperative Culture IN AND Criticism Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. THE Ascetic Imperative Culture AND Criticism THE Ascetic Imperative Culture IN AND Criticism Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
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... culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they ... culture ; it may best be considered as sub - ideological , common to all culture . In this large sense , asceticism is the ...
... culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they ... culture ; it may best be considered as sub - ideological , common to all culture . In this large sense , asceticism is the ...
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... culture is the conviction of the value and necessity of self - denial , the mark of human consciousness is the capacity for self - observation or self - criticism . These are the bases of asceticism , whose manifest , explicit , and ...
... culture is the conviction of the value and necessity of self - denial , the mark of human consciousness is the capacity for self - observation or self - criticism . These are the bases of asceticism , whose manifest , explicit , and ...
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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