Negative Ecstasies : Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion / Kent L. Brintnall, Jeremy Biles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biles, Jeremy, Editor.

Brintnall, Kent L., Editor.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Bataille, Georges.

Religion.

Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Movements of Luxurious Exuberance

Sovereignty and Cruelty

Erotic Ruination

Desire, Blood, and Power

Th e Religion of Football

Violent Silence

Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism

Sacrifice as Ethics

Bataille’s Contestation of Interpretative Anthropology and of the Sociology of Religion

The Traumatic Secret

Foucault’s Sacred Sociology

Bataille and Kristeva on Religion

Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God

Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep?

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823265213

0823265218

9780823265220

0823265226

OCLC:

913915093