The ascetic self : subjectivity, memory, and tradition / Gavin Flood.

By:

Flood, Gavin D, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511264984
9780511264986
9780511265709
0511265700
0511263414
9780511263415
9780511617522
0511617526
9780521843386
0521843383
9780521604017
052160401X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ascetic self.DDC classification:

204.47 22

LOC classification:

BL625 .F57 2004eb

Other classification:

11.09

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Contents:

The asceticism of work: Simone Weil -- The asceticism of action the Bhagavad-gītā and Yoga-sūtras -- The asceticism of action: tantra -- The asceticism of the middle way -- The asceticism of the desert -- The asceticism of love and wisdom -- The ritual formation of the ascetic self -- The ascetic self and modernity.

Summary: Gavin Flood argues that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Gavin Flood argues that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition.

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