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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... Temptation 45 4 Narrative on Trial 2 67 89 I Two Discipline and Desire in Augustine's Confessions The Language of Conversion 91 Profit and Loss in the Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of ...
... Temptation 45 4 Narrative on Trial 2 67 89 I Two Discipline and Desire in Augustine's Confessions The Language of Conversion 91 Profit and Loss in the Ascesis of Discourse 107 3 The Fertile Word 119 2 135 I Three A Passion of ...
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... us with an extraordinarily useful concept , that of 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.
... us with an extraordinarily useful concept , that of 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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... temptations of St. Anthony " represented by Schöngauer , Teniers , Patinir , Cranach , Bosch , Bruegel , Cézanne , Dali , and many other artists are unassimilable to language categories ; they present Anthony with the temptation to view ...
... temptations of St. Anthony " represented by Schöngauer , Teniers , Patinir , Cranach , Bosch , Bruegel , Cézanne , Dali , and many other artists are unassimilable to language categories ; they present Anthony with the temptation to view ...
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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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