Elisa Heinämäki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Heinämäki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinämäki |
| SIGNATURE | HEINÄMÄKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience
This article engages with Michel Foucault's idea of confession as the central Christian strategy of subjection or subjectivation and the link he proposes between confession and obedience. The article also wishes to show how confession can become counter-conduct. I apply Foucault's conceptions to early modern Lutheran confessionalism, elucidating how the confessional apparatus of the orthodox Lutheranism of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swed…
Durkheim, Bataille, and Girard on the Ambiguity of the Sacred
Why was it often difficult, in the late medieval religious world, to draw the line between saints and demoniacs? This article argues that the question-which goes to the core of the social construction of religious meaning-can be clarified by the notion of the sacred and in particular through the discussion on the ambiguity of the sacred as developed by Émile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and René Girard. I further argue that the sacred must be unde…
Nothing Distinguishes Us from God
Inner Experience [L’Experience interieure], the first book that Georges Bataille ever wrote under his own name, was published in 1943 – the same year Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness (L’Etr
Politics of the Sacred
Between the two World Wars, the rise of the fascist politico-religious movements proved a fateful return of the ‘collective effervescence’ that Emile Durkheim had placed at the core of the sacred. This article analyses the conception of the sacred in the work of two scholars, Mircea Eliade and Georges Bataille, who both responded to this phenomenon in their work. Their theories are scrutinized with an eye to their political implications: What pol…
Durkheim, Bataille, and Girard on the Ambiguity of the Sacred
Why was it often difficult, in the late medieval religious world, to draw the line between saints and demoniacs? This article argues that the question-which goes to the core of the social construction of religious meaning-can be clarified by the notion of the sacred and in particular through the discussion on the ambiguity of the sacred as developed by Émile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and René Girard. I further argue that the sacred must be unde…
Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience
This article engages with Michel Foucault's idea of confession as the central Christian strategy of subjection or subjectivation and the link he proposes between confession and obedience. The article also wishes to show how confession can become counter-conduct. I apply Foucault's conceptions to early modern Lutheran confessionalism, elucidating how the confessional apparatus of the orthodox Lutheranism of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swed…
Politics of the Sacred
Between the two World Wars, the rise of the fascist politico-religious movements proved a fateful return of the ‘collective effervescence’ that Emile Durkheim had placed at the core of the sacred. This article analyses the conception of the sacred in the work of two scholars, Mircea Eliade and Georges Bataille, who both responded to this phenomenon in their work. Their theories are scrutinized with an eye to their political implications: What pol…
Nothing Distinguishes Us from God
Inner Experience [L’Experience interieure], the first book that Georges Bataille ever wrote under his own name, was published in 1943 – the same year Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness (L’Etr
Durkheim, Bataille, and Girard on the Ambiguity of the Sacred
Why was it often difficult, in the late medieval religious world, to draw the line between saints and demoniacs? This article argues that the question-which goes to the core of the social construction of religious meaning-can be clarified by the notion of the sacred and in particular through the discussion on the ambiguity of the sacred as developed by Émile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and René Girard. I further argue that the sacred must be unde…
Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience
This article engages with Michel Foucault's idea of confession as the central Christian strategy of subjection or subjectivation and the link he proposes between confession and obedience. The article also wishes to show how confession can become counter-conduct. I apply Foucault's conceptions to early modern Lutheran confessionalism, elucidating how the confessional apparatus of the orthodox Lutheranism of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swed…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work)