The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Gavin Flood
Abstract
Gavin Flood
Abstract
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 perfomance of the memory of tradition.
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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 perfomance of the memory of tradition.
Key concepts: Asceticism, Action (physics), Philosophy, Theology, Quantum mechanics, Physics