mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history /
Amy Hollywood
1 online resource (xv, 371 pages)
Religion and postmodernism
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-357) and index
Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 GEORGES BATAILLE, MYSTIQUE; 2 (EN)GENDERING MYSTICISM; 3 FEMINISM, MYSTICISM, AND BELIEF; Conclusion; Notes; Index
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'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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Sensible ecstasy.
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Mysticism-- Psychology-- History
Philosophy, French-- 20th century
Psychoanalysis and religion-- France-- History-- 20th century