Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion
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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Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion
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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Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion

Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion

Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion

Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823265206
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 08/03/2015
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Biles is the author of Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (Fordham).

Kent L. Brintnall is the Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professor in Teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure.

Table of Contents

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 Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep?
Jeremy Biles
Afterword
Amy Hollywood

Notes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index
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