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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... origin of the 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 ...
... origin of the 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 ...
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... origin of signs through intention , and the terminus of signification in understanding . In between lies the entire drama of the creation , the fall , and redemption . This drama is even projected onto the relation between Scripture and ...
... origin of signs through intention , and the terminus of signification in understanding . In between lies the entire drama of the creation , the fall , and redemption . This drama is even projected onto the relation between Scripture and ...
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... origin and continues to provide validation even in a fallen world . As linguistics is commonly the locus of such metaphysical nostalgia , Athanasius's theologization of the distinctions between speech , writing , and thought is not an ...
... origin and continues to provide validation even in a fallen world . As linguistics is commonly the locus of such metaphysical nostalgia , Athanasius's theologization of the distinctions between speech , writing , and thought is not an ...
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... origin is always already differential and nontranscendent ; that “ usurpation ” or “ violence ” has always already occurred ; that the natural is always already unnatural ; and that “ from the moment that there is meaning there are ...
... origin is always already differential and nontranscendent ; that “ usurpation ” or “ violence ” has always already occurred ; that the natural is always already unnatural ; and that “ from the moment that there is meaning there are ...
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... origin of language , and theories of the relation between writing , speech , and mind , have only a shaky basis in theoretical consistency themselves . These areas of linguistic theory are dominated by a Kierkegaardian dread . If dread ...
... origin of language , and theories of the relation between writing , speech , and mind , have only a shaky basis in theoretical consistency themselves . These areas of linguistic theory are dominated by a Kierkegaardian dread . If dread ...
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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