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Teaching ascesis: Recovering the neglected center of early Christian pedagogy

International Journal of Christianity and Education, 2022
This article aims to recover the foundational importance of training in ascesis for Christian education. For early Christian pedagogues such as Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom, education was seen not so much as the transmission of information as it
Kyle Hughes
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4. The Buddhist Ascesis

Imagining Karma, 2019
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Philosophy as Ascesis of the Mind

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism”
The purpose of the article is to clarify I.A. Ilyin’s understanding of the main, “innermost” essence of philosophy as special “ascesis of the mind”. This is a return to the original purpose of philosophy. I.A.
Vitaly Darensky
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2. Images at entrances, and ascesis

Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610, 2018
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Queer Ascesis and the Invention of New Games

Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education, 2019
The promotion of marriage as the definition or pinnacle of intimacy inevitably diminishes the value—both social and epistemological—of other forms of intimacy, such as friendship. Marriage, as a legal contract, administers population: a form of what Foucault called biopower and a discourse deployed to contain and manage society.
J. Kemp
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Ascesis and Ecstasy

Fiction and Philosophy in the Zhuangzi, 2021

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Kant’s Philosophical Ascesis

History of European Ideas
Kantian philosophy is usually understood to be an exposition of a priori principles of cognition and morality that have been retrieved from the human mind. This paper and the larger study on which it is based explore a different kind of approach. What if Kantian philosophy is grounded not in timeless principles retrieved from the mind but in ascetic ...
Ian Hunter
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Versions of Ascesis in Louise Glück's Poetry

The Cambridge Quarterly, 2018
:Nearly all of Louise Glück's readers have recognised an ascetic bearing in the formal spareness of her work. This essay traces three versions of ascesis expressed in her poetry: first, a practice of self-assertion through self-denial, involving a quest ...
R. Baker
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Ascesis

Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Michel Foucault and Queer Ascesis: Toward a Pedagogy and Politics of Subversive Friendships

Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education, 2019
Nelson M. Rodriguez
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