Negative Ecstasies

Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion

AvJeremy Biles,Kent L. Brintnall

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille's work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:496 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823265206

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Jeremy Biles is the author of Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (Fordham, 2007). He teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His writings have appeared in such places as the Journal of Religion; Culture, Theory, and Critique; and Performance Research. A selection of his drawings, some inspired by Andre Masson's Acephale, appeared in the 2014 group show "Baudy" at the Adds Donna Gallery in Chicago.Kent L. Brintnall is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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"This collection makes a significant and timely contribution to the still emergent scholarship on Georges Bataille. The authors have not given in to the temptation to tame the texts, but neither is this an uncritical celebration; rather, the consistently thoughtful essays take up Bataille's work seriously and carefully in a range of new approaches and ideas." -- -Karmen MacKendrick Le Moyne College "Negative Ecstacies provides a welcome appraisal of Bataille's contribution to religious thought and experience in a post-sacred society. With scholarly rigor, this impressive collection extends his provocative ideas to daringly new terrain." -- -Michele Richman University of Pennsylvania

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sacred with a Vengeance Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics Lynne Gerber Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and the Bataillean Subject Stephen S. Bush Erotic Ruination: Embracing the "savage spirituality" of Barebacking Kent L. Brintnall Desire, Blood and Power: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeast India Hugh B. Urban The Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa David Chidester Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille's "Method of Meditation" Paul Hegarty Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism Jean-Joseph Goux Sacrifice as Ethics: The Strange Religiosity of Neoliberalism Shannon Winnubst Bataille's Contestation of Interpretive Anthropology and the Sociology of Religion Alphonso Lingis The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal Foucault's Sacred Sociology Mark D. Jordan Bataille and Kristeva on Religion Zeynep Direk Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God Allan Stoekl Does the Acephale Dream of Headless Sheep? Jeremy Biles Afterword Amy Hollywood Notes Works Cited List of Contributors Index