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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823265206
  • 9780823265220
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2603.A695 Z774 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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