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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... essence of the Father " ( 69 : 82 ) . For Athanasius , and for Anthony , most of whose excursions into " the world ” are undertaken to propagandize against the Arians , Christ is the word - with - understanding , a derivation with the ...
... essence of the Father " ( 69 : 82 ) . For Athanasius , and for Anthony , most of whose excursions into " the world ” are undertaken to propagandize against the Arians , Christ is the word - with - understanding , a derivation with the ...
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... essence . Signs may be vulnerable to demonic pollution , but the mark of virtue is that we aspire to the condition of signs , aspire to an utter materiality , a totally degraded and therefore perfect dependency on the animating spirit ...
... essence . Signs may be vulnerable to demonic pollution , but the mark of virtue is that we aspire to the condition of signs , aspire to an utter materiality , a totally degraded and therefore perfect dependency on the animating spirit ...
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... essence of asceticism in all its forms . Heidegger , a radically untheoretical theoretician , sensed the profound continuities between asceticism and language , concluding from Hölderlin's lines , So I renounced and sadly see : Where ...
... essence of asceticism in all its forms . Heidegger , a radically untheoretical theoretician , sensed the profound continuities between asceticism and language , concluding from Hölderlin's lines , So I renounced and sadly see : Where ...
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... essence of all positivity . The denial of a claim to something turns out to be a “ nondenial of self ” that " owes itself wholly to the mystery of the word . ” And so “ Renunciation speaks affirmatively ” ( On the Way to Language 150-52 ) ...
... essence of all positivity . The denial of a claim to something turns out to be a “ nondenial of self ” that " owes itself wholly to the mystery of the word . ” And so “ Renunciation speaks affirmatively ” ( On the Way to Language 150-52 ) ...
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... this quest , and of the notion that language can be perfected so as to be free from error , accident , and ambiguity . In the Philosophical » Investigations he argues that the essence of language lies 19 2. Technique and the Self.
... this quest , and of the notion that language can be perfected so as to be free from error , accident , and ambiguity . In the Philosophical » Investigations he argues that the essence of language lies 19 2. Technique and the Self.
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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