Description: Sensible Ecstasy : Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History, Paperback by Hollywood, Amy M., ISBN 0226349527, ISBN-13 9780226349527, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Sensible Ecstasy : Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Sensible Ecstasy : Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Medieval, Mysticism, Europe / France, History & Surveys / Modern, Women's Studies
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology, History
Author: Amy Hollywood
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Religion and Postmodernism Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
