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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... reader , we could say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a condition of mutual resistance . How badly such a concept is needed may be illustrated by a recent discussion in the ...
... reader , we could say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a condition of mutual resistance . How badly such a concept is needed may be illustrated by a recent discussion in the ...
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... reader and text were complex . In the embattled , scattered little Christian communities of the Late Roman empire , the few texts that circulated were read in many ways : as messages from others in similar circumstances , as reminders ...
... reader and text were complex . In the embattled , scattered little Christian communities of the Late Roman empire , the few texts that circulated were read in many ways : as messages from others in similar circumstances , as reminders ...
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... readers strive for the impossible perfect imitation of Anthony . They fail , but succeed in the failure . Anthony was in fact so widely known through this book , and so widely imitated , that he has become a saint of the book ; he is ...
... readers strive for the impossible perfect imitation of Anthony . They fail , but succeed in the failure . Anthony was in fact so widely known through this book , and so widely imitated , that he has become a saint of the book ; he is ...
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... readers that he is awaiting his martyrdom “ with all the passion of a lover ” ( 106 ) , and sees himself as God's " wheat , ground fine by the lions ' teeth to be made purest bread for Christ " ( 104 ) . No torture would be too extreme ...
... readers that he is awaiting his martyrdom “ with all the passion of a lover ” ( 106 ) , and sees himself as God's " wheat , ground fine by the lions ' teeth to be made purest bread for Christ " ( 104 ) . No torture would be too extreme ...
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... readers can hasten and even anticipate his death by treating his letter as though it were he . In a gesture of radical anti - logocentrism , he writes , “ I am not writing now as a mere man , but I am voicing the mind of God ” ( 106 ) ...
... readers can hasten and even anticipate his death by treating his letter as though it were he . In a gesture of radical anti - logocentrism , he writes , “ I am not writing now as a mere man , but I am voicing the mind of God ” ( 106 ) ...
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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