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The ascetic imperative in culture and criticism

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The ideology of asceticism: ascetic linguistics
  • Technique and the self
  • The signs of temptation
  • Narrative on trial
  • 2. Discipline and desire in Augustine's Confessions: the language of conversion
  • Profit and loss in the ascesis of discourse
  • The fertile word
  • 3. A passion of representation: Grünewald's Isenheim Altar: anonymity, modernity, and the medieval
  • Conceptual narrative
  • A passion of representation
  • Asceticism and the sublime
  • 4. Philosophy and the resistance to asceticism: Nietzsche: weakness and the will to power
  • Saint Foucault
  • 5. The ascetics of interpretation.