From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception by Yonghwa Lee, Kyoung-Min Han

“…Mal's tragic death has turned Cobb into an ascetic idealist who paradoxically resorts to self-torture to alleviate his pain and suffering. …”
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The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche by Zachary Stevens

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Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL ACADEMIES’ TEACHERS OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY by M. A. Ershova

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Konfrontacja ascetyki Hieronima ze Strydonu i Pelagiusza z Brytanii na podstawie wybranych dzieł by Anita Mularczyk-Budzan

“…Jerome postulated the way of Christian pilgrimage to God, where faithful tackling weaknesses by the grace of God and ascetic practice. The good Christian by Jerome should imitate Christ, by honest work, prayer and ascetic practice, consequently – the choice of monastic life. …”
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Os cavaleiros do Graal e o anti-heroísmo hagiográfico by Ana Margarida Chora

“…But if, on the one hand, their heroic characteristics determine the specificity of their ascetic evolution; on the other, hagiographic pathways in medieval narratives have forms that touch anti-heroism.…”
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An architectonics of desire: the person on the path to Nada in John of the Cross by F. England

“… The strenuous ascetic that is established in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night by John of the Cross, frequently, and not illegitimately, is viewed as the purging of desire, but often to the extent that desire exclusively is perceived as a detrimental and negative quality. …”
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The landscape of the monastic endeavour: The choices of St Sava of Serbia by Popović Danica

“…This paper approaches the question of the selection of site intended for monastic ascetic pursuits taking the example of St Sava of Serbia. …”
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Para uma compreensão da Clausura Monástica e Emparedamento enquanto fenómenos históricos e religiosos by Paula Barata Dias

“…In this article we seek the relations between the enclosure and the walling in as parts of a universal religious language and we explore the manifestations of self closure and desired walling in which took place in a particular moment of increasing ascetic and monastic mouvements of the history of Christianity. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…He does not seek to withdraw from the visible world even if he mundanely practices an ascetic lifestyle. On the contrary, he wants to transform the world by his commitment. …”
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L’ermite et le virtuose by Denis Laborde

“…Glenn Gould lived as an ascetic in Ontario, giving up concerts, which he likened to bullfights, to devote himself to recording. …”
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Hezychia w ujęciu Jana Klimaka i jej odzwierciedlenie w wizerunkach postaci na ikonach Andrzeja Rublowa by Olga Cyrek

“…The article explains what is hezychia, about which he wrote John Climacus (d. 649), a monk and ascetic writer in Greek. Hezychia means peace and quiet spirit, which sought to gain the ancient anachorites. …”
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BLESSED MARCELINA DAROWSKA – A NOTABLE EXAMPLE OF POLISH MYSTICISM OF THE 19TH CENTURY by Marek Chmielewski

“…She left a two-volume ascetic-mystical treatise, spiritual notes (“Diary”), many letters to spiritual directors and some sisters, as well as texts of retreats that she preached to students and various people. …”
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Definicja piękna w XII wieku a architektoniczna ekspozycja ołtarza w epoce gotyckiej by Mirosław Bogdan

“…This decides about moral beauty and the beauty of clear existence, without which there is no right knowing of the ascetic Cistercian architecture and the reality of the gothic curtain altar. …”
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SCIENTIA SACRA IN SUFISM AS WELTANSCHAUUNG CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY by Imron Mustofa

“…The philosophical basis of this movement originated from theosophical reasoning, transformed into praxis asceticism, and developed as philosophical asceticism. …”
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Z. Ivinskis: the first objective researcher of St. Casimir's life by Jonas Boruta

“…Casimir was not only a strong-willed ascetic but also an educated and gifted young man of the Renaissance period who actively took part in the country's government and politics; he was a prince who on certain questions of political life had his views which not always concurred with the political line of the Roman pontiffs. …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…Flaubert expresses his inability to love on the one hand by his extreme male chauvinistic and hygienic practice of “baisade” or “foutrerie”, and on the other, in a ascetic, even monastic, discourse of “life for Art”, or, even better, of an Art that demands dying to life. …”
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Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Adults with Celiac Disease by V. Passananti, M. Siniscalchi, F. Zingone, C. Bucci, R. Tortora, P. Iovino, C. Ciacci

“…EDI-2 was different in pulse thinness, social insecurity, perfectionism, inadequacy, ascetisms, and interpersonal diffidence between CD and HC women, whilst only in interceptive awareness between CD and HC men. …”
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ON THE SPECIFICS OF TEACHING, SCHOOLS AND INTELLECTUAL CENTERS OF PALESTINE OF LATE ANTIQUITY by Zhanna M. Sukhova, Irina Yu. Vashcheva

“…This image is quite different from the information that could be found in biographies and teachings of the ascetics of the Holy Land. The people of Palestine could choose different methods and teaching styles. …”
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