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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... simply condemns culture not simply endorses it ; it does both . Asceticism , we could say , raises the issue of culture by structuring an opposition between culture and its opposite . Despite the fanaticism of its early Christian ...
... simply condemns culture not simply endorses it ; it does both . Asceticism , we could say , raises the issue of culture by structuring an opposition between culture and its opposite . Despite the fanaticism of its early Christian ...
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... simply the Late Roman form of the one continuing discussion conducted within Western thought since the Greeks , on the relation between appearance and reality . Too often today this discussion is condensed into a misleadingly simple ...
... simply the Late Roman form of the one continuing discussion conducted within Western thought since the Greeks , on the relation between appearance and reality . Too often today this discussion is condensed into a misleadingly simple ...
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... simply articulates the “ inhumanity that constitutes humanism in the first place . ) Is And what of speech , the Christ - like , redemptive mode ? Voice may animate the textual code , but in so doing it reactives the body ...
... simply articulates the “ inhumanity that constitutes humanism in the first place . ) Is And what of speech , the Christ - like , redemptive mode ? Voice may animate the textual code , but in so doing it reactives the body ...
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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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