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Ascetic Imperative in Culture+criticism
by Harpham, Geoffrey G.
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- ISBN-13: 9780226316918
- ISBN: 0226316912
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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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.Harpham, Geoffrey G. is the author of 'Ascetic Imperative in Culture+criticism' with ISBN 9780226316918 and ISBN 0226316912.
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