Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

Amy Hollywood

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of 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, ...

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