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



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Autore: Hollywood Amy M. <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sensible ecstasy : mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history / / Amy Hollywood Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 371 pages)
Disciplina: 248.2/2/09
248.2209
Soggetto topico: Mysticism - Psychology - History
Women mystics - Psychology - History
Philosophy, French - 20th century
Psychoanalysis and religion - France - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: mysticism, mystic, sex, sexual, sexuality, history, historical, religion, religious, 20th century, french, france, luce irigaray, jacques lacan, simone de beauvoir, georges bataille, psychology, psychological, philosophy, philosophical, psychoanalysis, trauma, catastrophe, feminism, gender, belief, communication, metaphysics, intellectuals, intellectualism, emotion, contemplation, teresa of avila, hadewijch, subjectivity, body
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-357) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Georges Bataille, Mystique -- 2. (En)gendering Mysticism -- 3. Feminism, Mysticism, and Belief -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Sensible ecstasy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-50425-8
9786612504259
0-226-34946-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781050903321
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Serie: Religion and postmodernism.