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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... Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and the Medieval 137 Conceptual Narrative 174 3 A Passion of Representation 186 Asceticism and the Sublime 197 2 4 201 Four Philosophy and the Resistance to Asceticism Nietzsche : V Contents.
... Isenheim Altar Anonymity , Modernity , and the Medieval 137 Conceptual Narrative 174 3 A Passion of Representation 186 Asceticism and the Sublime 197 2 4 201 Four Philosophy and the Resistance to Asceticism Nietzsche : V Contents.
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... resistance to what Augustine calls “ nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may be thought of as primary psychic gestures . In part 3 I explore another analog to asceticism in ...
... resistance to what Augustine calls “ nature and nature's appetites . ” The numerous forms this resistance can take all derive from what may be thought of as primary psychic gestures . In part 3 I explore another analog to asceticism in ...
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... resistance . Ethics is grounded in the notion of resistance to temptation , but the concept can and should be generalized , in ways I try to suggest throughout the XV Introduction.
... resistance . Ethics is grounded in the notion of resistance to temptation , but the concept can and should be generalized , in ways I try to suggest throughout the XV Introduction.
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... resistance is that it suspends two apparently antagonistic terms -- one fixed , the analogs or transformations of " soul ; the other mobile , the analogs or transformations of “ body ” — in a relationship of interdependence so that both ...
... resistance is that it suspends two apparently antagonistic terms -- one fixed , the analogs or transformations of " soul ; the other mobile , the analogs or transformations of “ body ” — in a relationship of interdependence so that both ...
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... resistance within desire between tropes of finitude and infinitude that constitutes the ground of agreement between ... resistances , rather than stark oppositions to , or collusions with , each other . The first part of this book ...
... resistance within desire between tropes of finitude and infinitude that constitutes the ground of agreement between ... resistances , rather than stark oppositions to , or collusions with , each other . The first part of this book ...
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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