Staking the Monster

A Politics of Remonstrance

Bibliographic Data

ID4857879
AuthorsEdward J Ingebretsen (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume8
Issue1
Pages91-116
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/rac.1998.8.1.03a00040
OpenAlexW4239988355
LanguageEN
References cited26

Monster, you are an abomination. I love you.Marquis de Sade,JuliettePerversion is not an innate desire ... but an identity and a category which is socially produced.Jeffrey Dollimore,Sexual DissidenceSome years ago I asked in an examination paper ... "why were heretics persecuted in the thirteenth Century?" The question was very popular and the answer, with great confidence and near unanimity, "because there were so many of them."R. I. Moore,The Formation of a Persecuting SocietyA social order reveals the limits of its imagination in two particular ways. The first is in the methods of fear by which it constructs the unspeakable (the "monstrous" or the "inhuman") as symbolic center of social energy. The second is in the means, legal and extralegal, then used to repudiate and silence that energy

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Monster · Perversion · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Unanimity · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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