Negative Ecstasies : : Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion /

Negative Ecstasies : : Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion / / ed. by Kent L. Brintnall, Jeremy Biles.

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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 sa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Biles, Jeremy,
Brintnall, Kent L.,
Bush, Stephen S.,
Caputo, John D.,
Chidester, David,
Direk, Zeynep,
Gerber, Lynne,
Goux, Jean-Joseph,
Hegarty, Paul,
Hollywood, Amy,
Jordan, Mark D.,
Kripal, Jeffrey J.,
Lingis, Alphonso,
Stoekl, Allan,
Urban, Hugh B.,
Winnubst, Shannon,
HerausgeberIn:
Biles, Jeremy,
Brintnall, Kent L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Movements of Luxurious Exuberance
  • Sovereignty and Cruelty
  • Erotic Ruination
  • Desire, Blood, and Power
  • Th e Religion of Football
  • Violent Silence
  • Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism
  • Sacrifice as Ethics
  • Bataille's Contestation of Interpretative Anthropology and of the Sociology of Religion
  • The Traumatic Secret
  • Foucault's Sacred Sociology
  • Bataille and Kristeva on Religion
  • Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God
  • Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep?
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

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