《The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism》是University Of Chicago Press出版的圖書，作者是Geoffrey Galt Harpham
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780226316925
- 作者：Geoffrey Galt Harpham
- 出版社：University Of Chicago Press
- 出版時間：1992年2月15日
- 頁數：344
- 定價：GBP 34.50
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
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, Grunewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other think...(展開全部) 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, Grunewald, 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.
