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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... passage is the way in which a human being can become imitable , how he can meet what are sometimes called the conditions of representation . The passage implies that the body and its desires and appetites are not , as we sometimes think ...
... passage is the way in which a human being can become imitable , how he can meet what are sometimes called the conditions of representation . The passage implies that the body and its desires and appetites are not , as we sometimes think ...
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... passage concludes , “ speak of a ' theological prejudice , ' functioning sporadically when it is a question of the plenitude of the logos ; the logos is theological . Infinitist theologies are always logocentrisms ... ” ( Grammatology ...
... passage concludes , “ speak of a ' theological prejudice , ' functioning sporadically when it is a question of the plenitude of the logos ; the logos is theological . Infinitist theologies are always logocentrisms ... ” ( Grammatology ...
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... passage where he is describing Anthony's dread of the text , Athanasius can write “ All his yearning , as it has been written of Jacob . ... ” Textuality even preserved the character of imitation itself . An imitation by one person of ...
... passage where he is describing Anthony's dread of the text , Athanasius can write “ All his yearning , as it has been written of Jacob . ... ” Textuality even preserved the character of imitation itself . An imitation by one person of ...
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... passage of time : “ The move from an oral to a written culture was made easier by the sense among ascetics that their true masters were now dead ” ( 71 ) .13 Hagiographical texts , then , granted their heroes a continuing life after ...
... passage of time : “ The move from an oral to a written culture was made easier by the sense among ascetics that their true masters were now dead ” ( 71 ) .13 Hagiographical texts , then , granted their heroes a continuing life after ...
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... passage of centuries . Indeed , we may say that the better a theory is as theory , the worse it describes language . а Consider , finally , the negative . As has often been noted , the negative does not exist in nature , only in ...
... passage of centuries . Indeed , we may say that the better a theory is as theory , the worse it describes language . а Consider , finally , the negative . As has often been noted , the negative does not exist in nature , only in ...
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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