Sites of the Ascetic SelfSites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. Cassians late ancient texts, written in the context of social, cultural, political, doctrinal, and environmental change, contribute to an ethics