The making of the self
Subtitle: ancient and modern asceticism
By: Richard Valantasis.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781556352867
Subjects: Asceticism; Asceticism -- History; Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Ascetics -- Rome
Notes: Bibliography : p. 299-314.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Theory:; title: 1. A theory of the social function of asceticism; title: 2. Constructions of power in asceticism; title: 3. Asceticism as a sacred marriage: eastern and western theories; title: 4. Asceticism or formation: theorizing asceticism after Nietzsche; title: 5. A theory of asceticism, revised; title: Part II. Christian Asceticism:; title: 6. Uncovering Adam's esoteric body; title: 7. Daemons and the perfecting of the monk's body; title: 8. Ascetical withdrawal and the second letter of Basil the Great; title: 9. Is the Gospel of Thomas ascetical?; title: 10. Competing ascetic subjectivities in the letter to the Galatians; title: Part III. Roman Asceticism:; title: 11. Nag Hammadi and asceticism: theory and practice; title: 12. Demons, adversaries, devils, fisherman: the asceticism of Authoritative Teaching (NHL, VI, 3) in Roman perspective; title: 13. Musonius Rufus and Roman ascetical theory