Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion
Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professor in Teaching
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Abstract
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille’s work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Sacred with a Vengeance
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Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics
Lynne Gerber
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Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and the Bataillean Subject
Stephen S. Bush
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Erotic Ruination: Embracing the “Savage Spirituality” of Barebacking
Kent L. Brintnall
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Desire, Blood, and Power: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeastern India
Hugh B. Urban
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The Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival, and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
David Chidester
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Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille’s “Method of Meditation”
Paul Hegarty
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Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism
Jean ⁃ Joseph Goux
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Sacrifice as Ethics: The Strange Religiosity of Neoliberalism
Shannon Winnubst
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Bataille’s Contestation of Interpretative Anthropology and of the Sociology of Religion
Alphonso Lingis
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The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature
Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Foucault’s Sacred Sociology
Mark D. Jordan
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Bataille and Kristeva on Religion
Zeynep Direk
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Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God
Allan Stoekl
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Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep?
Jeremy Biles
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Afterword
Amy Hollywood
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End Matter
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