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Sensible Ecstasy (Paperback)
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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.
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