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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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