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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Page xi
... seem less arbitrary if we remind ourselves of a less controversial idea , that all cultures are ethical cultures ; for the idea of ethics is inescapably ascetical . No matter how hedonistic , materialistic , self - indulgent , wicked ...
... seem less arbitrary if we remind ourselves of a less controversial idea , that all cultures are ethical cultures ; for the idea of ethics is inescapably ascetical . No matter how hedonistic , materialistic , self - indulgent , wicked ...
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... seems unable to imagine a way out of such oppositions and the questions they provoke . For many of these questions , asceticism provides us with an extraordinarily useful concept , that of resistance . Ethics is grounded in the notion ...
... seems unable to imagine a way out of such oppositions and the questions they provoke . For many of these questions , asceticism provides us with an extraordinarily useful concept , that of resistance . Ethics is grounded in the notion ...
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... seems to understand the full meaning of the word or its applicability in this case . While they do not agree on the relation between art and capitalism , they do agree on the nature of desire . Bersani contends not only that literature ...
... seems to understand the full meaning of the word or its applicability in this case . While they do not agree on the relation between art and capitalism , they do agree on the nature of desire . Bersani contends not only that literature ...
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... seems - conversely — to borrow its metaphors " ( Grammatology 35 ) . Such an argument is clearly a strategic " mistake , ” emphasizing a corresponding mistake that has placed speech before writing and the problem of body and soul before ...
... seems - conversely — to borrow its metaphors " ( Grammatology 35 ) . Such an argument is clearly a strategic " mistake , ” emphasizing a corresponding mistake that has placed speech before writing and the problem of body and soul before ...
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... seem to apply with equal force to ascetic linguistics , for what Athanasius characterically denies is the social character of language , its necessary implication in the material world , the cultural moment . For Athanasius , this ...
... seem to apply with equal force to ascetic linguistics , for what Athanasius characterically denies is the social character of language , its necessary implication in the material world , the cultural moment . For Athanasius , this ...
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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