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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... and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic gestures which testify to the capacity of asceticism to efface even itself . I The Ideology of Asceticism Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing xvii Introduction.
... and are therefore implicated in their own critiques as ascetic gestures which testify to the capacity of asceticism to efface even itself . I The Ideology of Asceticism Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing xvii Introduction.
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. I The Ideology of Asceticism Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing with ink and paper , I. The Ideology of Asceticism.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. I The Ideology of Asceticism Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing with ink and paper , I. The Ideology of Asceticism.
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing with ink and paper , and thereby many have sinned from all eternity unto this day . Enoch 69 : 9 T ' he master text of Western asceticism is the The Life of Anthony , written in ...
Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Ascetic Linguistics I ... writing with ink and paper , and thereby many have sinned from all eternity unto this day . Enoch 69 : 9 T ' he master text of Western asceticism is the The Life of Anthony , written in ...
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... Writing , which can harbor profit but which is at odds with it . Not only an " outside , ” writing is a deformation : it is secondary , belated , contaminatory , parodic , dead . The " dread of the text ” Anthony experiences as a boy is ...
... Writing , which can harbor profit but which is at odds with it . Not only an " outside , ” writing is a deformation : it is secondary , belated , contaminatory , parodic , dead . The " dread of the text ” Anthony experiences as a boy is ...
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... writing cannot explain itself when challenged for its meaning , but requires the “ protection ” of its parent , the “ man with knowledge . ” Writing is the lesser of the two sons of understanding : compared with " living and animate ...
... writing cannot explain itself when challenged for its meaning , but requires the “ protection ” of its parent , the “ man with knowledge . ” Writing is the lesser of the two sons of understanding : compared with " living and animate ...
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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