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Sensible ecstasy: mysticism, sexual differnce and the demands of history

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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...,

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Z. HANDIMAN

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248.22 HOL s

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press., 2002

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xv,371p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-226-34951-9

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248.22

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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE - MYSTICISM

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