The ascetic ideal : genealogies of life-denial in religion, morality, art, science, and philosophy /

In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values (aesthetics) are in fact deeply informed by ethico-religious commitments, for better and for worse....

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Main Author: Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
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