GEORGES BATAILLE'S MYSTICAL CRUELTY

In this reply to Kent Brintnall's response to my essay on Georges Bataille and the ethics of ecstasy, I explore two primary questions: whether instrumentalization is inherently violent and non-instrumentalization is inherently non-violent, and whether there is a way to intervene in the world th...

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Autor principal: Bush, Stephen S. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
En: Journal of religious ethics
Año: 2012, Volumen: 40, Número: 3, Páginas: 551-555
Otras palabras clave:B Mysticism
B Violence
B Sarah Coakley
B Georges Bataille
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Sumario:In this reply to Kent Brintnall's response to my essay on Georges Bataille and the ethics of ecstasy, I explore two primary questions: whether instrumentalization is inherently violent and non-instrumentalization is inherently non-violent, and whether there is a way to intervene in the world that avoids both “apathetic disengagement” and domination. I endorse the view that instrumentalization can be good as well as bad, and I suggest that it is possible to strive to intervene in the world without striving to master it. I make reference to Sarah Coakley as a Christian theologian who advances particular practices that aim for non-dominating intervention in theworld.
ISSN:1467-9795
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00536.x