Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

by Amy Hollywood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226349527
• ISBN13: 9780226349527
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"