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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... human consciousness is the capacity for self - observation or self - criticism . These are the bases of asceticism , whose manifest , explicit , and conscious forms appear now not as intrinsically unnatural and perverse but rather as an ...
... human consciousness is the capacity for self - observation or self - criticism . These are the bases of asceticism , whose manifest , explicit , and conscious forms appear now not as intrinsically unnatural and perverse but rather as an ...
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... human condition . But there is another way of looking at this figure , as a meditation on the relation between human life and aesthetic form . From this point of view the subject of the passage is the way in which a human being can ...
... human condition . But there is another way of looking at this figure , as a meditation on the relation between human life and aesthetic form . From this point of view the subject of the passage is the way in which a human being can ...
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... human practices and aesthetic form . The " contribution " of early Christian asceticism is that it provided a perspective in which all these issues and forces were considered together as part of a complex whole . And so although ...
... human practices and aesthetic form . The " contribution " of early Christian asceticism is that it provided a perspective in which all these issues and forces were considered together as part of a complex whole . And so although ...
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... human behavior so perfectly that it is impossible to tell the voice of conscience from demonic whisperings , the original from the parody . And the purity of their mimicry perpetrates a crisis of the logos in the suspicion that the ...
... human behavior so perfectly that it is impossible to tell the voice of conscience from demonic whisperings , the original from the parody . And the purity of their mimicry perpetrates a crisis of the logos in the suspicion that the ...
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... human being can . The imitation of a text is imitation without devaluation . With its lengthy discussions of the deceptions and disorder of demons , about which I shall have more to say in later chapters , this text gives extraordinary ...
... human being can . The imitation of a text is imitation without devaluation . With its lengthy discussions of the deceptions and disorder of demons , about which I shall have more to say in later chapters , this text gives extraordinary ...
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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