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Against Transgression

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6989-9
Paperback
160 pages
May 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Studies the origins of the contemporary proliferation of ‘Transgression’ in the compelling thought experiments of Georges Bataille, and follows its inauguration as a mode of legitimate critical practice via Michel Foucault.
  • Tracks the author’s rejection of Transgression as a legitimate critical methodology following her mother’s death and her own maternal transfiguration.
  • Shows how the po-faced claims of critical methodology can be exploded by genuinely personal reflection.
  • Considers the place of grief in the transformation of thought.
  • Argues against the model of the ‘death of god’ that underpins the transgressive turn in critical thought, and for a more courageous account of the inevitable return of numinous desires.
  • Considers the moral responsibility of the critical writer.
  • Traces the transfiguration of the author from transgressive daughter to maternal agent.

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