Christianity Would Not Want a World from which Violence was Excluded
God, Bataille and Derrida on the Sovereign Logic of Religious Child Killing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Mansfield (0000-0003-0042-6522, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v18i2.2760 |
| OpenAlex | W1977144409 |
| Language | EN |
This article explores Georges Bataille's attempts to locate Gilles de Rais (1404-1440)-military figurehead, national hero, serial child-killer, archetype of Bluebeard-in a cultural, historical and political imaginary, and in a religious inscape. Bataille does this in his essay 'The Tragedy of Gilles de Rais', where de Rais finds his place as a remnant of the collapsing world of the feudal seigneur, a world he had outlived, with its military reforms and complex ecclesiastical politics
Archetype · Art · Feudalism · HERO · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sovereignty · The Imaginary · Tragedy (event · European Political History Analysis · French Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |