Negative Ecstasies

Description

Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille's work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.

Sujets

• Philosophy of religion
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 03 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823265220
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Negative Ecstasies

Series Board

James Bernauer

Drucilla Cornell

homasR.Flynn Kevin Hart Ricard Kearney

Jean-Luc Marion

Adriaan Peperzak

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Hent de Vries

Merold Westpal

Micael Zimmerman

Jon D. Caputo,series editor

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E d i t e d b y J E R E M Y B I L E S a n d K E N T L . B R I N T N A L L

Negative Ecstasies Georges Bataille and te Study of Religion

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Negative ecstasies : Georges Bataille and te study of religion / edited by Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall.  pages cm. — (Perspectives in Continental pilosopy)  Includes bibliograpical references and index.  ISBN ---- (clot : alk. paper) — ISBN ---- (pbk. : alk. paper)  . Bataille, Georges, –. . Religion. . Religions. I. Biles, Jeremy, editor.  B.BN   .—dc 

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Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Sacred wit a Vengeance  Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics  Lynne Gerber Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and te Bataillean Subject  Stepen S. Bus Erotic Ruination: Embracing te “Savage Spirituality” of Barebacking  Kent L. Brintnall Desire, Blood, and Power: Georges Bataille and te Study of Hindu Tantra in Norteastern India  Hug B. Urban he Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival, and Sovereignty at te  FIFA World Cup in Sout Africa  David Cidester Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille’s “Metod of Meditation”  Paul Hegarty

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