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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sacred with a Vengeance
- Movements of Luxurious Exuberance: Georges Bataille and Fat Politics
- Sovereignty and Cruelty: Self-Affirmation, Self-Dissolution, and the Bataillean Subject
- Erotic Ruination: Embracing the “Savage Spirituality” of Barebacking
- Desire, Blood, and Power: Georges Bataille and the Study of Hindu Tantra in Northeastern India
- The Religion of Football: Sacrifice, Festival, and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
- Violent Silence: Noise and Bataille’s “Method of Meditation”
- Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism
- Sacrifice as Ethics: The Strange Religiosity of Neoliberalism
- Bataille’s Contestation of Interpretive Anthropology and the Sociology of Religion
- The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature
- Foucault’s Sacred Sociology
- Bataille and Kristeva on Religion
- Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God
- Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index
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