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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... interest has marked this book everywhere in ways apparent most of all to the author . The most complicated form of acknowledgement goes to Adrian , for whom this book was one of the trials of adolescence ; and to Clare , who knew ...
... interest has marked this book everywhere in ways apparent most of all to the author . The most complicated form of acknowledgement goes to Adrian , for whom this book was one of the trials of adolescence ; and to Clare , who knew ...
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... interest of the early Christian experience , then , is that within its fanatical particularity , a profound and virtually universal idea struggles for articulation . But perhaps it is a mistake to call asceticism an “ idea . ” The ...
... interest of the early Christian experience , then , is that within its fanatical particularity , a profound and virtually universal idea struggles for articulation . But perhaps it is a mistake to call asceticism an “ idea . ” The ...
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... interest between that culture and this one , a continuity I hope to bring out in this book . In treating the “ ascetic imperative ” as a primary , transcultural structuring force , I am following in the tracks of many who have had ...
... interest between that culture and this one , a continuity I hope to bring out in this book . In treating the “ ascetic imperative ” as a primary , transcultural structuring force , I am following in the tracks of many who have had ...
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... interest , but as it touches on issues of authority , priority , originality , the status of derivation , and since Christ is the Word — the nature of language , it has analogical descendants in the fields of philosophy , linguistics ...
... interest , but as it touches on issues of authority , priority , originality , the status of derivation , and since Christ is the Word — the nature of language , it has analogical descendants in the fields of philosophy , linguistics ...
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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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