Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Religion and Postmodernism)

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (Religion and Postmodernism)

by Amy Hollywood (Author), Amy Hollywood (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 388
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Jan 2002

ISBN 10: 0226349527
ISBN 13: 9780226349527