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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... relation between human life and aesthetic form . From this point of view the subject of the 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 ...
... relation between human life and aesthetic form . From this point of view the subject of the 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 ...
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... relation between life and knowledge , and articulates an opposition within which dialogue and dialectic can occur ; but it leaves the issue unsettled by privileging both sides . In the comment of the pseudo - Clement , then , we can see ...
... relation between life and knowledge , and articulates an opposition within which dialogue and dialectic can occur ; but it leaves the issue unsettled by privileging both sides . In the comment of the pseudo - Clement , then , we can see ...
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... relation are maintained . Text and 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 ...
... relation are maintained . Text and 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 ...
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... relation between asceticism and the sublime . The fourth part explores efforts by Nietzsche and Foucault to escape the binding force of traditions or structures they call ascetic by positing counterconcepts of power or the body . The ...
... relation between asceticism and the sublime . The fourth part explores efforts by Nietzsche and Foucault to escape the binding force of traditions or structures they call ascetic by positing counterconcepts of power or the body . The ...
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... relation between appearance and reality . Too often today this discussion is condensed into a misleadingly simple ... relations between reader and text were complex . In the embattled , scattered little Christian communities of the Late ...
... relation between appearance and reality . Too often today this discussion is condensed into a misleadingly simple ... relations between reader and text were complex . In the embattled , scattered little Christian communities of the Late ...
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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