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An Occult Kind of Ascesis

1999
In a study on the spectral dimensions of cyberculture, Erik Davis offers evidence concerning the link between cybertechnology and the hermetic philosophy of the Renaissance.1 The past and the present, as it were, establish a relationship of seamlessness.
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Sublime Ascesis: Lyotard, Art and the Event

Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 2002
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Casaubon’s Ephemerides as a Companion of Calvinist Ascesis through Labour

Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 2019
The Hellenist Isaac Casaubon taught at Geneva’s Academy from 1582 to 1596. Invited to Montpellier’s University as the future restorer of Greek studies, after the tormented years of the French civil wars, he moved to the Midi of France. A few weeks later,
Matteo Campagnolo
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Petrarch and the poetics of ascesis

2018
The writings of Francis Petrarch (1304-74) have been and continue to be variously interpreted and reinterpreted by scholars. Focusing on perhaps the two most discussed and debated of his works, the Secretum and the letter on the Ascent of Mont Ventoux, together with the thematically and chronologically linked De otio religioso and De vita solitaria ...
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The Debt of the Living

2016
Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for maintaining ...
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On the Problem of Artistic Interpretation and Embodiment of Spiritual Ascesis in Historical-Religious Painting

Труды кафедры богословия Санкт-Петербургской Духовной Академии, 2022
E. A. Skorobogacheva, Anna V Stepanova
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Retreat spiritual practice and the anthropology of ascesis in V. Makanin's novel The Forerunner

World of Russian-speaking Countries, 2022
Zhou Xie, Weiwei Zhang
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Sacrifice and Ascesis : the Taboo of Meat and the Holy Child

2008
In The Ancient Life of Symeon the Younger we find a representation of sanctity in forms and stylistic elements which had been by then largely codified; there is no need to show the process of ascetic construction of the « sanctified » body, the process is instead stressed as something naturally taken for granted; it represents a kind of holiness ...
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