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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hollywood, Amy M., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Colección:Religion and postmodernism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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