АСКЕЗА И ЖЕЛАНИЕ. МАЛКО ЕТИКА И МАЛКО ЕСТЕТИКА
ASCESIS AND DESIRE. A LITTLE BIT ETHICS AND A LITTLE BIT AESTHETICS

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses in an essaystic manner the unbalanced interrelation between ascesis and desire in the Western cultural type, and in principle in every cultural type, together with the anthropological characters who are tied to it. The suggestion is that, on the one hand there is a direct relation of the ascetic practices to the so-called true discourse (the valid “science”), and on the other hand an indirect relation of Desire to the versions and di-versions for a world of an ideological type. The essay seeks to elaborate a “hypotetic imperative of desire”, and articulates it in two formulations based (not only, but mainly) on two historic examples - Alexii the Godis man, and Saint Francis of Assisi. According to the first formula, a serial continuation of life through body metamorphoses and spirit imaginations should be preferable to a life immortalized in all legitime forms of religious pathos (resurrection, reincarnation, etc.). Following the second formulation, world should be nothing but the life in it, the forms of living. And the only reliable way both to remain in life and repeat it would be the desire. That is why the text aims - against the background of (and opposing to) a conception of truth - at sketching out the possibility of an ethics as a micrology of desire that feeds ideologically the living itself.

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