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Aesthetic cultivation and creative ascesis: Transcultural reflections on the late Foucault

open access: yesHuman Affairs, 2017
Foucault’s understanding of the history and contemporary significance of ascetic practices or exercises of cultivation (ascesis) differs significantly from attempts which consider the renewal of asceticism in spiritual or even religious terms. This paper
Fabian Heubel
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‘Noble’ Ascesis Between Nietzsche and Foucault

open access: yesNew Nietzsche Studies, 1998
This paper argues that Foucault’s The History of Sexuality contains an implicit but important interpretation of Nietzsche’s critique of the ‘ascetic ideal’. It suggests that Foucault undertakes a non-reductive synthesis of seemingly conflicting aspects of Nietzsche’s thought, on the one hand, its valorisation of the ‘Dionysian’ and, on the other hand ...
Urpeth, James
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Stories of devoted university students: the mathematical experience as a form of ascesis [PDF]

open access: yesEducational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Drawing on autobiographical essays written by master's students in mathematics preparing to become teachers, we investigate what mathematical identity these students articulate and how. By means of a discursive thematic analysis centered on the notion of
Francesco Beccuti   +2 more
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Passions, Ascesis, and the Virtues

2015
Pauline Allen   +2 more
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Post-Cartesian Ascesis

Cultural Critique, 2017
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