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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... entire book . I have begun with the premise that asceticism has , even today , a certain descriptive resonance . While the term can plausibly " cover " early Christianity , the concept of asceticism exceeds the ideological limitations ...
... entire book . I have begun with the premise that asceticism has , even today , a certain descriptive resonance . While the term can plausibly " cover " early Christianity , the concept of asceticism exceeds the ideological limitations ...
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... entire ideology is condensed here , involving self - denial , belief in God , and the tireless effort to starve out or punish the animal elements of the human condition . But there is another way of looking at this figure , as a ...
... entire ideology is condensed here , involving self - denial , belief in God , and the tireless effort to starve out or punish the animal elements of the human condition . But there is another way of looking at this figure , as a ...
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... entire drama of the creation , the fall , and redemption . This drama is even projected onto the relation between Scripture and Christ . Anthony's fame as an ascetic hero grew so great that the emperor Constantine Augustus wrote letters ...
... entire drama of the creation , the fall , and redemption . This drama is even projected onto the relation between Scripture and Christ . Anthony's fame as an ascetic hero grew so great that the emperor Constantine Augustus wrote letters ...
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... entire body — let every horrid and diabolical torment come upon me , provided only that I can win my way to Jesus Christ ! ” ( 105 ) . This ecstatic death drive accompanies another desire that at first seems incongruous and unrelated ...
... entire body — let every horrid and diabolical torment come upon me , provided only that I can win my way to Jesus Christ ! ” ( 105 ) . This ecstatic death drive accompanies another desire that at first seems incongruous and unrelated ...
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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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