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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... force , I am following in the tracks of many who have had similar intuitions . William James , for example , understood that asceticism was not an exclusively religious phenomenon . In The Varieties of Religious Experience , he ...
... force , I am following in the tracks of many who have had similar intuitions . William James , for example , understood that asceticism was not an exclusively religious phenomenon . In The Varieties of Religious Experience , he ...
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... force always on the side of " the world ” and as the scene or stage for discipline , self - denial , ascesis , Only through certain physical acts acknowledged to constitute “ mastery over the body as opposed to the body's mastery over ...
... force always on the side of " the world ” and as the scene or stage for discipline , self - denial , ascesis , Only through certain physical acts acknowledged to constitute “ mastery over the body as opposed to the body's mastery over ...
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... force of traditions or structures they call ascetic by positing counterconcepts of power or the body . The contention of the polemical fifth part is that interpretation theory , alternating between modes of formalism and modes of ...
... force of traditions or structures they call ascetic by positing counterconcepts of power or the body . The contention of the polemical fifth part is that interpretation theory , alternating between modes of formalism and modes of ...
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... force to ascetic linguistics , for what Athanasius characterically denies is the social character of language , its ... forces us to 12 The Ideology of Asceticism.
... force to ascetic linguistics , for what Athanasius characterically denies is the social character of language , its ... forces us to 12 The Ideology of Asceticism.
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... force and that speech in no way transcends writing . In short , ascetic linguistics includes both logocentrism and its opposites without any sense of a disabling contradiction . Nor is the contradiction disabling . The problem ascetic ...
... force and that speech in no way transcends writing . In short , ascetic linguistics includes both logocentrism and its opposites without any sense of a disabling contradiction . Nor is the contradiction disabling . The problem ascetic ...
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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