Sensible ecstasy : mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history / Amy Hollywood.

By: Hollywood, Amy M, 1963-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and postmodernism: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002Description: xv, 371 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226349519 (alk. paper); 0226349527 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mysticism -- Psychology -- History | Women mystics -- Psychology -- History | Philosophy, French -- 20th century | Psychoanalysis and religion -- France -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 248.2/2/09 LOC classification: BV5083 | .H55 2002Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Table of contents Summary: '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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-357) and index.

'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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