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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.
Contents
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sacred with a Vengeance Jeremy Biles and Kent L. Brintnall Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics Lynne Gerber Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and the Bataillean Subject Stephen S. Bush Erotic Ruination: Embracing the "savage spirituality" of Barebacking Kent L. Brintnall Desire, Blood and Power: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeast India Hugh B. Urban The Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa David Chidester Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille's "Method of Meditation" Paul Hegarty Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism Jean-Joseph Goux Sacrifice as Ethics: The Strange Religiosity of Neoliberalism Shannon Winnubst Bataille's Contestation of Interpretive Anthropology and the Sociology of Religion Alphonso Lingis The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal Foucault's Sacred Sociology Mark D. Jordan Bataille and Kristeva on Religion Zeynep Direk Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God Allan Stoekl Does the Acephale Dream of Headless Sheep? Jeremy Biles Afterword Amy Hollywood Notes Works Cited List of Contributors Index
