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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973568603321

Autore

Jenks Chris

Titolo

Transgression / / Chris Jenks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

0-7369-0195-7

1-134-51684-3

0-203-42532-4

1-134-51685-1

1-280-02247-7

0-203-42286-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Key ideas

Disciplina

302.542

Soggetti

Deviant behavior

Conformity

Israel Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Whither Transgression?; The Centre Cannot Hold; To Have Done With the Judgement of God; Excess; Extreme Seductiveness is at the Boundary of Horror; Journey to the End of the Night; The World Turned Upside Down; Theatres of Cruelty; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

Ranges widely over the history of ideas, major theorists and the formation of the idea of transgression. Also looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche,