A New Take on Asceticism: Asceticism as Training and Secession Suspended between 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 eleme...

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Main Author: Klostergaard Petersen, Anders 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Numen
Year: 2019, Volume: 66, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 465-498
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sloterdijk, Peter 1947-, Du musst dein Leben ändern / Asceticism / Individual / Collective
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Sloterdijk
B Weavers
B Ideology
B Ritual
B Kosmos religion
B Asceticism
B Durkheim
B Training Program
B Axial Age
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