Georges Bataille's Mystical Cruelty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760795 |
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| Authors | Stephen S Bush (John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 551-555 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00536.x |
| OpenAlex | W1491898195 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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
Aesthetics · Criminology · Cruelty · Ecstasy · Exorcism · Intervention (counseling · Mysticism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Highly cited | No |
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