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

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This text investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among 20th-century French intellectuals, demonstrates the work the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers, and asks why resolutely secular intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and denigrated forms of mysticism.

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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.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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Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of Christian 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.

Author Biography

Amy Hollywood is an associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction I. Georges Bataille, Mystique Introduction: " the philosopher --Sartre--and me" 1 The Scandal of the Real 2 Mysticism, Trauma, and Catastrophe in Angela of Foligno's Book and Bataille's Atheological Summa 3 From Image to Text: Photography, Writing, and Communication II. (En)gendering Mysticism Introduction: From Woundedness to Castration; or, On the Gender of Mysticism 4 "Mysticism is tempting": Simone de Beauvoir on Mysticism, Metaphysics, and Sexual Difference 5 Jacques Lacan, Encore : Feminine Jouissance, the Real, and the Goal of Psychoanalysis III. Feminism, Mysticism, and Belief Introduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis in France 6 From Lack to Fluidity: Luce Irigaray, La Myst

Details ISBN0226349527 Short Title SENSIBLE ECSTASY Language English ISBN-10 0226349527 ISBN-13 9780226349527 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations Ill. Subtitle Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History DOI 10.1604/9780226349527 UK Release Date 2002-01-01 AU Release Date 2002-01-01 NZ Release Date 2002-01-01 US Release Date 2002-01-01 Author Amy Hollywood Pages 384 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 2002-01-01 DEWEY 248.2209 Audience Undergraduate Series Religion and Postmodernism Series We've got this

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