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The ascetic ideal : genealogies of life-denial in religion, morality, art, science, and philosophy / Stephen Mulhall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Zur Genealogie der Moral.
- Asceticism--History.
- Asceticism.
- Asceticism--Christianity.
- Civilization, Western.
- Philosophers--Germany--19th century--Criticism and interpretation.
- Philosophers.
- Zur Genealogie der Moral (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages)
- Other Title:
- Genealogies of life-denial in religion, morality, art, science, and philosophy
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Stephen Mulhall traces the development of an ideal of asceticism through Western culture. He shows how influential this self-denying attitude to life has been not just in religion and morality but in aesthetics, science, and philosophy. And he illuminates the role of the ascetic ideal in the thought of Nietzsche, who introduced the concept.
- Contents:
- Essay One: Authority and Revelation
- Essay Two: Writing the Life of the Mind
- Essay Three: Knowing, Framing, and Enframing.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191916-0
- 0-19-265079-3
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