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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... say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a condition of ... says , real economies operate with physical entities whose finitude provides brakes to desire at the same time that ...
... say , exist neither in opposition to each other nor are they one and the same . They exist only in a condition of ... says , real economies operate with physical entities whose finitude provides brakes to desire at the same time that ...
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... says , " Nothing is more common in the prefaces to lives of saints than excuses for imperfections of form and a preoccupation concerning style ” ( 66 ) . Athanasius inaugurates the tradition of nervous prefaces by asserting that his ...
... says , " Nothing is more common in the prefaces to lives of saints than excuses for imperfections of form and a preoccupation concerning style ” ( 66 ) . Athanasius inaugurates the tradition of nervous prefaces by asserting that his ...
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. you say ? Which is first --- mind or letters ? And which is the cause of which the mind of the ... say " there was when he was not ” for the Word coexisted with the Father always ” ( 69 : 82 ) . Logologically , then ...
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. you say ? Which is first --- mind or letters ? And which is the cause of which the mind of the ... say " there was when he was not ” for the Word coexisted with the Father always ” ( 69 : 82 ) . Logologically , then ...
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... says , words are “ released from the shackles of sense , to enjoy a play period of complete freedom and establish unusual relationships among themselves ” ( Rabelais and His World 423 ) . In its natural state — that is , when it has not ...
... says , words are “ released from the shackles of sense , to enjoy a play period of complete freedom and establish unusual relationships among themselves ” ( Rabelais and His World 423 ) . In its natural state — that is , when it has not ...
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... says , the dependency on texts grew steadily with the 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 ...
... says , the dependency on texts grew steadily with the 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 ...
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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