Sensible Ecstasy
Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesensibleecstasym0000holl
- ISBN-100226349519
- ISBN-139780226349510
- Library of Congress Control Number2001037603
- OCLC Control Number47224687
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226349510
- Open LibraryOL9644172M
Classifications
- LCCBV5083.H55 2002
- LCCBV5083 .H55 2002
Description
'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.
First Sentence
On a day sometime in the late thirteenth century, a woman came through the portals of the church of St. Francis in Assisi and began to scream.
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- Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
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