Sensible ecstasy : mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history /
'Sensible Ecstasy' investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Lu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Religion and postmodernism.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 'Sensible Ecstasy' investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 371 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-357) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226349466 0226349462 1282504258 9781282504257 9786612504259 6612504250 9780226349510 0226349519 |