Sensible ecstasy : mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history

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 Luce Irigaray,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollywood, Amy M., 1963- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2002.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Religion and postmodernism.
Subjects:
Mysticism > Psychology > History.
Women mystics > Psychology > History.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Psychoanalysis and religion > France > History > 20th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798025106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Georges Bataille, Mystique
  • 2. (En)gendering Mysticism
  • 3. Feminism, Mysticism, and Belief
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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