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Negative ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the study of religion

Jeremy Biles and Kent Brintnall
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction: Sacred with a Vengence (Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall, page 1)
  • Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics (Lynne Gerber, page 19)
  • Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and the Bataillean Subject (Stephen S. Bush, page 38)
  • Erotic Ruination: Embracing the "Savage Spirituality" of Barebacking (Kent L. Brintnall, page 51)
  • Desire, Blood, and Power: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeastern India (Hugh B. Urban, page 68)
  • The Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival, and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa (David Chidester, page 81)
  • Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille's "Method of Meditation" (Paul Hegarty, page 95)
  • Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism (Jean-Joseph Goux, page 106)
  • Sacrifice as Ethics: The Strange Religiosity of Neoliberalism (Shannon Winnubst, page 123)
  • Bataille's Contestation of Interpretive Anthropology and the Sociology of Religion (Alphonso Lingis, page 138)
  • The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature (Jeffrey J. Kripal, page 153)
  • Foucault's Sacred Sociology (Mark D. Jordan, page 169)
  • Bataille and Kristeva on Religion (Zeynep Direk, page 182)
  • Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God (Allan Stoekl, page 202)
  • Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep? (Jeremy Biles, page 217)
  • Afterword (Amy Hollywood, page 239)
  • Notes (page 245)
  • Works Cited (page 285)
  • List of Contributors (page 303)
  • Index (page 307)
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Published: 2015
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823265206 (paper)
  • 9780823265190 (hardcover)
  • 9780823265213 (ebook)
Series
  • Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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