LEADER 03609nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910457245003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-50425-8 010 $a9786612504259 010 $a0-226-34946-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226349466 035 $a(CKB)2550000000006836 035 $a(EBL)481231 035 $a(OCoLC)609855201 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365732 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11279250 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365732 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10414677 035 $a(PQKB)10796526 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122936 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC481231 035 $a(DE-B1597)523703 035 $a(OCoLC)1135611541 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226349466 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL481231 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364132 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250425 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000006836 100 $a20010611d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSensible ecstasy$b[electronic resource] $emysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history /$fAmy Hollywood 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (388 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and postmodernism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-34951-9 311 $a0-226-34952-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-357) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Georges Bataille, Mystique -- $t2. (En)gendering Mysticism -- $t3. Feminism, Mysticism, and Belief -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aSensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism. What is particular to these thinkers, Hollywood reveals, is their attention to forms of mysticism associated with women. They regard mystics such as Angela of Foligno, Hadewijch, and Teresa of Avila not as emotionally excessive or escapist, but as unique in their ability to think outside of the restrictive oppositions that continue to afflict our understanding of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. Mystics such as these, like their twentieth-century descendants, bridge the gaps between action and contemplation, emotion and reason, and body and soul, offering new ways of thinking about language and the limits of representation. 410 0$aReligion and postmodernism. 606 $aMysticism$xPsychology$xHistory 606 $aWomen mystics$xPsychology$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy, French$y20th century 606 $aPsychoanalysis and religion$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMysticism$xPsychology$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen mystics$xPsychology$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy, French 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and religion$xHistory 676 $a248.2/2/09 676 $a248.2209 700 $aHollywood$b Amy M.$f1963-$0916909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457245003321 996 $aSensible ecstasy$92055553 997 $aUNINA