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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... early going , I was fortunate enough to have the generous counsel and friendship of Frank Bowman . The book was written during my three years ( 1983–86 ) as the Andrew F. Mellon Scholar in the Department of English and American ...
... early going , I was fortunate enough to have the generous counsel and friendship of Frank Bowman . The book was written during my three years ( 1983–86 ) as the Andrew F. Mellon Scholar in the Department of English and American ...
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... early Christian era , but also to certain features of our own culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they emerged . This survival is one of the most remarkable things ...
... early Christian era , but also to certain features of our own culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they emerged . This survival is one of the most remarkable things ...
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... earliest and most instinctive psychic and cultural developments . The interest of the early Christian experience , then , is that within its fanatical particularity , a profound and virtually universal idea struggles for articulation ...
... earliest and most instinctive psychic and cultural developments . The interest of the early Christian experience , then , is that within its fanatical particularity , a profound and virtually universal idea struggles for articulation ...
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... early Christian ethics and spirituality ; in the loose sense it refers to any act of self - denial undertaken as a strategy of empowerment or gratification . Throughout the book , but particularly in part 1 , I move back and forth ...
... early Christian ethics and spirituality ; in the loose sense it refers to any act of self - denial undertaken as a strategy of empowerment or gratification . Throughout the book , but particularly in part 1 , I move back and forth ...
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... Early Christian asceticism was supported by a highly articulated theology , but essentially it was driven by the same desire to which Greek thought , for example , was so responsive — to live coherently , to stabilize life so as to make ...
... Early Christian asceticism was supported by a highly articulated theology , but essentially it was driven by the same desire to which Greek thought , for example , was so responsive — to live coherently , to stabilize life so as to make ...
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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