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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... Mind , or the “ heart " which takes in “ profit . ” The heart is untouched by representation , repetition , or mediation . It does not require language but can motivate language and understand it . It is essentially an " inside . " ( 2 ) ...
... Mind , or the “ heart " which takes in “ profit . ” The heart is untouched by representation , repetition , or mediation . It does not require language but can motivate language and understand it . It is essentially an " inside . " ( 2 ) ...
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... mind ? ' After their reply that the mind is first , and an inventor of the letters , Anthony said : Now you see that in the person whose mind is sound there is no need for the letters ” ” ( 73 : 84 ) . The Greeks depart , astonished at ...
... mind ? ' After their reply that the mind is first , and an inventor of the letters , Anthony said : Now you see that in the person whose mind is sound there is no need for the letters ” ” ( 73 : 84 ) . The Greeks depart , astonished at ...
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. 6 a Father , with the mind , while writing is relegated to the desert of externality and illegitimacy . Similarly , “ logocentrism ” is aligned with “ phonocentrism ” and , particularly in the Christian version ...
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. 6 a Father , with the mind , while writing is relegated to the desert of externality and illegitimacy . Similarly , “ logocentrism ” is aligned with “ phonocentrism ” and , particularly in the Christian version ...
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... mind , or " heart ” are inconceivable without the difference or distance exemplified by writing . The basis of Derrida's critique is the instituted trace , the repeatable sign that indicates presence but which is constituted by ...
... mind , or " heart ” are inconceivable without the difference or distance exemplified by writing . The basis of Derrida's critique is the instituted trace , the repeatable sign that indicates presence but which is constituted by ...
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... mind or heart free from the qualities of exteriority , parody , death , or abstraction associated with writing . Derrida's critique of logocentrism takes the form of an insistence that language has not fallen into writing , but that the ...
... mind or heart free from the qualities of exteriority , parody , death , or abstraction associated with writing . Derrida's critique of logocentrism takes the form of an insistence that language has not fallen into writing , but that the ...
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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