{"id":111,"date":"2024-07-01T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2024-12-20T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:06:32","slug":"way-and-its-poor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/news-and-events\/impoverished-aesthetics-2022\/ia-abstracts\/way-and-its-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way and Its Poor: Bareness of Life from Seneca to Jerome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex Dressler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)<\/strong><br \/>\nContinuities between Classical and Christian forms of asceticism were recognized by the ancients, as when Jerome called the Neronian philosopher, &#8220;our Seneca, of most moderate existence&#8221; (<em>continentissimae vitae<\/em>, Jer.\u00a0<em>Vir. ill<\/em>. 12.850, 629a). While many modern thinkers (e.g. Foucault 2011, 177-90) have discussed the <em>aesthetic<\/em>\u00a0character of this asceticism, none have explained its development from the idea of the thesis, argument, or theme of a work of art,\u00a0<em>propositum<\/em> (Jer.\u00a0<em>Comm. in Eph.<\/em>\u00a01.11, 1.558, cp. Quint. 3.3.5), in ancient aesthetic theory. Reviewing instances of this word, which will come to denote the monastic &#8220;way&#8221; of poverty, in the letters of Seneca and Jerome (Sen.\u00a0<em>Ep<\/em>. 5.4, with\u00a0<em>TLL<\/em>\u00a01A\u03b22), I argue that the reduction of art to its theme in criticism was fundamental to the formation of the aesthetics of existence in ethical life and to certain forms of &#8220;realism&#8221; or the representation of the poor in Latin literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Dressler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Continuities between Classical and Christian forms of asceticism were recognized by the ancients, as when Jerome called the Neronian philosopher, &#8220;our Seneca, of most moderate existence&#8221; (continentissimae vitae, Jer.\u00a0Vir. ill. 12.850, 629a). While many modern thinkers (e.g. Foucault 2011, 177-90) have discussed the aesthetic\u00a0character of this asceticism, none have explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23724,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/657"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}