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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... literary critics toward “ ascetic ” practices of reading do not constitute true oppositions but resistances , and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic gestures which testify to the capacity of asceticism to efface ...
... literary critics toward “ ascetic ” practices of reading do not constitute true oppositions but resistances , and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic gestures which testify to the capacity of asceticism to efface ...
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... literary tradition that contributed so crucially to the novel , the text is equally important in the history of narrative . Hagiography is the most action - packed mode in our literary tradition , and The Life of Anthony is notable for ...
... literary tradition that contributed so crucially to the novel , the text is equally important in the history of narrative . Hagiography is the most action - packed mode in our literary tradition , and The Life of Anthony is notable for ...
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... literary tradition . But it is not only the cultural situation that perturbs the hagiographer . This situation is complicated and radically intensified by the doctrine of Christ as Logos , which transposes theology into the key of ...
... literary tradition . But it is not only the cultural situation that perturbs the hagiographer . This situation is complicated and radically intensified by the doctrine of Christ as Logos , which transposes theology into the key of ...
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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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