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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... fact that the Desert Fathers brought the Book to the Desert , and served as apostles of a textual culture in the domain of the natural . Asceticism neither simply condemns culture not simply endorses it ; it does both . Asceticism , we ...
... fact that the Desert Fathers brought the Book to the Desert , and served as apostles of a textual culture in the domain of the natural . Asceticism neither simply condemns culture not simply endorses it ; it does both . Asceticism , we ...
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... fact inimical to representation . From the ascetical point of view it is self - denial that is eminently imitable , Through discipline , the author suggests , the self becomes at once self - aware , structured , knowable , and valuable ...
... fact inimical to representation . From the ascetical point of view it is self - denial that is eminently imitable , Through discipline , the author suggests , the self becomes at once self - aware , structured , knowable , and valuable ...
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... fact so widely known through this book , and so widely imitated , that he has become a saint of the book ; he is commonly represented in art holding or reading a book . This aspect of his later iconography is odd in light of the first ...
... fact so widely known through this book , and so widely imitated , that he has become a saint of the book ; he is commonly represented in art holding or reading a book . This aspect of his later iconography is odd in light of the first ...
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... fact that the trace is the condition of meaning in general means that the origin is always already differential and nontranscendent ; that “ usurpation ” or “ violence ” has always already occurred ; that the natural is always already ...
... fact that the trace is the condition of meaning in general means that the origin is always already differential and nontranscendent ; that “ usurpation ” or “ violence ” has always already occurred ; that the natural is always already ...
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... fact it always exceeds . “ Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions ; it is populated - overpopulated — with the intentions of others " ( Dialogic Imagination ...
... fact it always exceeds . “ Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions ; it is populated - overpopulated — with the intentions of others " ( Dialogic Imagination ...
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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