Vol. 15 No 1-2 (2014)
Artes

Lieu de tentation, espace du salut: le désert comme hétérotopie dans la Vie d'Antoine d'Athanase d'Alexandrie

Marianne Sághy
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest

Publiée 12/01/2014

Comment citer

Sághy, M. (2014). Lieu de tentation, espace du salut: le désert comme hétérotopie dans la Vie d’Antoine d’Athanase d’Alexandrie. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 15(1-2), 9–16. Consulté à l’adresse https://ojs.ppke.hu/verbum/article/view/449

Résumé

This article aims to place the Athanasian desert on the list of Foucauldian heterotopiae. In Life of Antony, Athanasius of Alexandria creates a Christian desert in stark opposition with the political space of the Roman Empire dominated by heretical emperors. The desert is an agora of spiritual fight with demons, a meeting place with God as well as an ideological landscape shaped by Athanasius' struggle with secular power. The desert's claims to utopia as a “new Paradise” are built on the homogenizing bases of Nicaean orthodoxy.