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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Religion and postmodernism. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3135872x*spi |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | xv, 371 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 279-357) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780226349466 |
