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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... Desire in Augustine's Confessions The Language of Conversion 91 Profit and Loss in the Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of Representation : Grünewald's Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and ...
... Desire in Augustine's Confessions The Language of Conversion 91 Profit and Loss in the Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of Representation : Grünewald's Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and ...
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... desire to which Greek thought , for example , was so responsive — to live coherently , to stabilize life so as to make it knowable . On the other hand , however - and asceticism is always ambidextrous - one could maintain with equal ...
... desire to which Greek thought , for example , was so responsive — to live coherently , to stabilize life so as to make it knowable . On the other hand , however - and asceticism is always ambidextrous - one could maintain with equal ...
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... desire at the same time that it enables the exercise of worldly power . Michaels replies that , considering in ... desire . Bersani contends not only that literature is hostile to worldly power but also that art is capable of invoking a ...
... desire at the same time that it enables the exercise of worldly power . Michaels replies that , considering in ... desire . Bersani contends not only that literature is hostile to worldly power but also that art is capable of invoking a ...
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... desire rather than an alien element imposed from the outside . In other words , desire is never limitless ; it is always resisted , and resisted from within . It is the resistance within desire between tropes of finitude and infinitude ...
... desire rather than an alien element imposed from the outside . In other words , desire is never limitless ; it is always resisted , and resisted from within . It is the resistance within desire between tropes of finitude and infinitude ...
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... desire . Where Xenophon recorded his diet in his hypomnemata , Anthony urged monks to record their dreams , moving textuality into the undisclosed regions of the self . Thus the ascetic text erases the distinction between inner and ...
... desire . Where Xenophon recorded his diet in his hypomnemata , Anthony urged monks to record their dreams , moving textuality into the undisclosed regions of the self . Thus the ascetic text erases the distinction between inner 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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