The essays gathered in this book aim to contribute further to showing how much the Wimbush-Harpham line of thinking is still extremely fertile and useful in overcoming the opposite excesses (phenomenological essentialism and historical specificity) and to aim for a minimal and shared definition of asceticism (and thus also of monasticism). The choice of two sufficiently generic and universally recognizable signifiers, ‘norm’ and ‘exercise’, can be useful in this sense.
Norm and Exercise: A Useful Pair of Lenses – An Introduction / Roberto Alciati. - STAMPA. - (2018), pp. 13-23.
Norm and Exercise: A Useful Pair of Lenses – An Introduction
Roberto Alciati
2018
Abstract
The essays gathered in this book aim to contribute further to showing how much the Wimbush-Harpham line of thinking is still extremely fertile and useful in overcoming the opposite excesses (phenomenological essentialism and historical specificity) and to aim for a minimal and shared definition of asceticism (and thus also of monasticism). The choice of two sufficiently generic and universally recognizable signifiers, ‘norm’ and ‘exercise’, can be useful in this sense.
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