عنوان

A New Take on Asceticism:

شماره

LA122909

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A New Take on Asceticism:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Asceticism as Training and Secession Suspended between Individuality and Collectivity

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anders Klostergaard Petersen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Inspired by Peter Sloterdijk's Du mußt dein Leben ändern. Über Anthropotechnik (2009), I present a novel take on asceticism as deliberate training. Understanding humans as training animals, I discuss how, with the emergence of kosmos or Axial Age religions, humans came to acknowledge this element and made it a pivotal part of their lives. After presenting three important complements to Sloterdijk's argument, I present a new take on asceticism by relating it to the two main currents in classical scholarship, those of Durkheim and of Weber. Underlying the two perspectives is the transition in asceticism, highlighted by Sloterdijk in his understanding of the phenomenon as basically constituting training programs, from a ritually determined to an ideologically defined form encompassing one's entire life. Finally, I argue with Durkheim and Sloterdijk that asceticism should not be reduced to a religious phenomenon only, nor to one exclusively characteristic of religions. It is a basic feature of human life enacted on a continuum suspended between the two poles of individuality and collectivity. Inspired by Peter Sloterdijk's Du mußt dein Leben ändern. Über Anthropotechnik (2009), I present a novel take on asceticism as deliberate training. Understanding humans as training animals, I discuss how, with the emergence of kosmos or Axial Age religions, humans came to acknowledge this element and made it a pivotal part of their lives. After presenting three important complements to Sloterdijk's argument, I present a new take on asceticism by relating it to the two main currents in classical scholarship, those of Durkheim and of Weber. Underlying the two perspectives is the transition in asceticism, highlighted by Sloterdijk in his understanding of the phenomenon as basically constituting training programs, from a ritually determined to an ideologically defined form encompassing one's entire life. Finally, I argue with Durkheim and Sloterdijk that asceticism should not be reduced to a religious phenomenon only, nor to one exclusively characteristic of religions. It is a basic feature of human life enacted on a continuum suspended between the two poles of individuality and collectivity.

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

465-498

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

66/5-6

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

asceticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Axial Age

اصطلاح موضوعی

Durkheim

اصطلاح موضوعی

ideology

اصطلاح موضوعی

kosmos religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

ritual

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sloterdijk

اصطلاح موضوعی

training program

اصطلاح موضوعی

Weber

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anders Klostergaard Petersen

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341551

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y