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

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

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  2002

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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.