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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... practices that erupted into high visibility during the early Christian era , but also to certain features of our own culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they emerged ...
... practices that erupted into high visibility during the early Christian era , but also to certain features of our own culture , features that have survived the loss of the ideological and theological structure within which they emerged ...
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... practice , asceticism exhibited a high - intensity comprehensiveness , a hyperarticularted ambivalence . Take for example the early Christian approach to culture , which often took radically anticultural forms , such as the retreat by ...
... practice , asceticism exhibited a high - intensity comprehensiveness , a hyperarticularted ambivalence . Take for example the early Christian approach to culture , which often took radically anticultural forms , such as the retreat by ...
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... practices and beliefs . At the same time , the extreme specificity of this “ pure " or " raw " articulation has perhaps concealed the continuity of interest between that culture and this one , a continuity I hope to bring out in this ...
... practices and beliefs . At the same time , the extreme specificity of this “ pure " or " raw " articulation has perhaps concealed the continuity of interest between that culture and this one , a continuity I hope to bring out in this ...
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... practices of representation and imitation . Even the body - or especially the body - can participate in symbolization , can acquire and bear meaning and value . It can do so through an ascesis that appears to deny the body , or at least ...
... practices of representation and imitation . Even the body - or especially the body - can participate in symbolization , can acquire and bear meaning and value . It can do so through an ascesis that appears to deny the body , or at least ...
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... practices ” than on the various forms of discourse ; others reverse the privilege . And in most instances of critical practice today , oppositions such as this are presented as though they required a choice : one must decide , for ...
... practices ” than on the various forms of discourse ; others reverse the privilege . And in most instances of critical practice today , oppositions such as this are presented as though they required a choice : one must decide , for ...
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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