The Ascetic Ideal : Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy

Stephen Mulhall traces the development of an ideal of asceticism through Western culture. He shows how influential this self-denying attitude to life has been not just in religion and morality but in aesthetics, science, and philosophy. And he illuminates the role of the ascetic ideal in the thought of Nietzsche, who introduced the concept.

• | : Stephen Mulhall (Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of New College, Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford)
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 12, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0192896881
• | ISBN-13: 9780192896889