Transgression - a concept defined as conduct that breaks rules or exceeds boundaries - is a key idea for sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists, and is a major feature of postmodern thought.Providing an inter-disciplinary base to the notion of transgression, this four-volume set includes a history of ideas, a résumé of the major contributory theorists, and a thematic discussion of the significant moments and substantive concerns of these various debates. A general introduction by the editor reviews theoretical perspectives and puts forward a rationale for the collection itself.

Acknowledgements

xiii

Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters

xv

General introduction

1

(12)

PART 1 Theorizing transgression

13

(166)

The solar anus

15

(5)

Georges Bataille

The deviations of nature

20

(3)

Georges Bataille

The pineal eye

23

(11)

Georges Bataille

Zarathustra's prologue

34

(11)

Friedrich Nietzsche

A preface to transgression

45

(17)

Michel Folcault

The issue of Bataille

62

(23)

Julian Pefanis

Eroticism in inner experience

85

(8)

Georges Bataille

The link between taboos and death

93

(7)

Georges Bataille

De Sade's sovereign man

100

(10)

Georges Bataille

De Sade and the normal man

110

(15)

Georges Bataille

Desire and work in the master and slave

125

(15)

Alexandre Kojeve

Death, communication and the experience of limits

140

(34)

Michael Richardson

The festival, or the transgression of prohibitions

174

(5)

Georges Bataille

PART 2 Polymorphous -- perverse

179

The mystified magistrate

181

(29)

Marquis De Sade

The great freak of nature -- half-a-man and half-an-elephant

210

(11)

Michael Howell

Peter Ford

Ubu Rex

221

(13)

Alfred Jarry

Les onze mille verges

234

(5)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Numbers

239

(23)

Catherine Millet

Crash

262

J. G. Ballard

Acknowledgements

vii

PART 3 Transgressing modernity

1

(144)

Carnival pleasures and the spectre of misrule

3

(20)

John Jervis

Manners and morals: the civilization of culture

23

(24)

John Jervis

Maxims and interludes

47

(13)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The rebel

60

(7)

Albert Camus

Mapping the postmodern

67

(44)

Andreas Huyssen

Edgework: a social psychological analysis of voluntary risk taking

111

(34)

Stephen Lyng

PART 4 The shock of the new

145

(168)

The theatre of cruelty (first manifesto)

147

(7)

Antonin Artaud

Two letters on cruelty

154

(2)

Antonin Artaud

The theatre of cruelty (second manifesto)

156

(5)

Antonin Artaud

Breaking the institutional codes: revolution in the classroom

161

(44)

Jack J. Spector

The theatre of cruelty

205

(27)

Stephen Barber

Culture little bastards

232

(9)

Stephen Bayley

The politics of excess

241

(13)

Elizabeth Wilson

Staking out the posts

254

(27)

Dick Hebdige

Baudelaire

281

(17)

Georges Bataille

Sade

298

(15)

Georges Bataille

PART 5 Carnival and misrule

313

The language of the marketplace in Rabelais

315

(38)

Mikhail Bakhtin

The grotesque image of the body and its sources

353

(48)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Upsetting the public

401

(20)

Clair Wills

Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera

421

(10)

Terry Eagleton

The city: the sewer, the gaze and the contaminating touch

431

Peter Stallybrass

Allon White

Acknowledgements

vii

PART 6 Rules and boundaries

1

(98)

The pre-eminence of the right hand: a study in religious polarity

3

(23)

Robert Hertz

Passages, margins and poverty: religious symbols of communitas

26

(29)

Victor Turner

Secular defilement

55

(10)

Mary Douglas

Powers and dangers

65

(17)

Mary Douglas

Where the women are, the cattle are not

82

(7)

E. Evans-Pritchard

Pollution

89

(10)

Mary Douglas

PART 7 The sacred and the profane

99

(130)

Definition of religious phenomena and of religion

101

(22)

Emile Durkheim

Pleasure or terror: the Devil at the end of the second millennium

123

(42)

Robert Muchembled

Bataille in the street: the search for virility in the 1930s

165

(18)

Susan Rubin Suleiman

Sacrifice

183

(34)

Rene Girard

How a possession is born

217

(12)

Michel De Certeau

PART 8 Transgressing space

229

Instructions for taking up arms

231

(4)

Attila Kotanyi

Raoul Vaneigem

Elementary program of the bureau of unitary urbanism

235

(5)

Attila Kotanyi

Raoul Vaneigem

Perspectives for conscious alterations in everyday life

240

(10)

Guy Debord

Down in the dirt

250

(7)

Patrick Wright

Dalston Lane becomes a dirt track

257

(6)

Patrick Wright

Dirty weekends and the carnival of sex

263

(7)

Rob Shields

Formulary for a new urbanism: rethinking the city

270

(48)

Simon Sadler

A walk on the east side

318

Chris Jenks

Acknowledgements

vii

PART 9 Madness and civilization

1

(146)

The tragedy of Gilles De Rais

3

(52)

Georges Bataille

From filth to defilement

55

(27)

Julia Kristeva

The insane

82

(13)

Michel Foucault

Lecture from 12 March 1975

95

(21)

Michel Foucault

Reveries on reverie: (``Animus'' -- ``Anima'')

116

(31)

Gaston Bachelard

PART 10 Criminal intent

147

(198)

Primordial evil: sense and dynamic in cold-blooded, `senseless' murder

149

(38)

Jack Katz

Seductions and repulsions of crime

187

(18)

Jack Katz

The traditional `way of life'

205

(19)

Geoffrey Pearson

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

224

(23)

Chris Jenks

The scene of the crime

247

(29)

Mark Seltzer

The serial killer as a type of person

276

(17)

Mark Seltzer

Gambling

293

(11)

Raphael Samuel

The anatomy of gang violence

304

(41)

Martin Jankowski

Index

345

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