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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... essential ascetic discipline of " self - denial , ” formulated by the Christian ascetics as the resistance to what Augustine calls “ nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may ...
... essential ascetic discipline of " self - denial , ” formulated by the Christian ascetics as the resistance to what Augustine calls “ nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may ...
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... essential distinction between Christ and man . According to the Arians , Christ was a “ creaturely ” being of extraordinary virtue whom humans could imitate . Athanasius and others ( including Augustine , who had early doubts on the ...
... essential distinction between Christ and man . According to the Arians , Christ was a “ creaturely ” being of extraordinary virtue whom humans could imitate . Athanasius and others ( including Augustine , who had early doubts on the ...
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... essential condition is one of unmasterable ambivalence and polyvocality in which words speak in multiple voices and bear multiple meanings ; accordingly , Bakhtin as an analyst of this condition is drawn to occasions such as those in ...
... essential condition is one of unmasterable ambivalence and polyvocality in which words speak in multiple voices and bear multiple meanings ; accordingly , Bakhtin as an analyst of this condition is drawn to occasions such as those in ...
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. individual ; and ( 2 ) what is essential from what is accessory and more or less accidental ” ( Course in General Linguistics 14 ) . No position could be more at odds with Bakhtin's , for it treats language as a ...
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. individual ; and ( 2 ) what is essential from what is accessory and more or less accidental ” ( Course in General Linguistics 14 ) . No position could be more at odds with Bakhtin's , for it treats language as a ...
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... essential language in which logical error would be impossible . He situated this language " outside the world ” : The sense of the world must lie outside the world . In the world everything is as it is , and everything happens as it ...
... essential language in which logical error would be impossible . He situated this language " outside the world ” : The sense of the world must lie outside the world . In the world everything is as it is , and everything happens as it ...
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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