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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... nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may be thought of as primary psychic gestures . In part 3 I explore another analog to asceticism in Julia Kristeva's hypothesis of a ...
... nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may be thought of as primary psychic gestures . In part 3 I explore another analog to asceticism in Julia Kristeva's hypothesis of a ...
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... nature of desire . Bersani contends not only that literature is hostile to worldly power but also that art is capable of invoking a principle of limitless desire ; Michaels responds that capitalism , too , operates by models of infinite ...
... nature of desire . Bersani contends not only that literature is hostile to worldly power but also that art is capable of invoking a principle of limitless desire ; Michaels responds that capitalism , too , operates by models of infinite ...
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... is the Word — the nature of language , it has analogical descendants in the fields of philosophy , linguistics , and phenomenology that a > » а structure the central critical debates of our time 3 1. Ascetic Linguistics.
... is the Word — the nature of language , it has analogical descendants in the fields of philosophy , linguistics , and phenomenology that a > » а structure the central critical debates of our time 3 1. Ascetic Linguistics.
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... nature , truth , economics , foundationalism , or idealism of any kind ) are ascertainable beyond dispute . Today's Arians argue that in this world everything is worldly , and subject to time , change , and mediation ; today's ...
... nature , truth , economics , foundationalism , or idealism of any kind ) are ascertainable beyond dispute . Today's Arians argue that in this world everything is worldly , and subject to time , change , and mediation ; today's ...
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... nature ” suffering the “ violence of the letter ” ; in Saussure's presumption that the " bond of sound ” is the natural bond , the only true bond " to meaning ; and in Husserl's claim that the voice is the “ most ideal vehicle of signs ...
... nature ” suffering the “ violence of the letter ” ; in Saussure's presumption that the " bond of sound ” is the natural bond , the only true bond " to meaning ; and in Husserl's claim that the voice is the “ most ideal vehicle of signs ...
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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