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Th e Religion of Football
Sacrifice, Festival, and Sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Movements of Luxurious Exuberance 19
- Sovereignty and Cruelty 38
- Erotic Ruination 51
- Desire, Blood, and Power 68
- Th e Religion of Football 81
- Violent Silence 95
- Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism 106
- Sacrifice as Ethics 123
- Bataille’s Contestation of Interpretative Anthropology and of the Sociology of Religion 138
- The Traumatic Secret 153
- Foucault’s Sacred Sociology 169
- Bataille and Kristeva on Religion 182
- Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God 202
- Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep? 217
- Afterword 239
- Notes 245
- Works Cited 285
- Contributors 303
- Index 307
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 313
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Movements of Luxurious Exuberance 19
- Sovereignty and Cruelty 38
- Erotic Ruination 51
- Desire, Blood, and Power 68
- Th e Religion of Football 81
- Violent Silence 95
- Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism 106
- Sacrifice as Ethics 123
- Bataille’s Contestation of Interpretative Anthropology and of the Sociology of Religion 138
- The Traumatic Secret 153
- Foucault’s Sacred Sociology 169
- Bataille and Kristeva on Religion 182
- Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God 202
- Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep? 217
- Afterword 239
- Notes 245
- Works Cited 285
- Contributors 303
- Index 307
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 313