Poetry and Ecstasy: Thinking Bodily with Heidegger and Bataille

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dc.contributor.advisorVallega-Neu, Daniela
dc.contributor.authorBrewer, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T23:11:22Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T23:11:22Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-18
dc.description.abstractThis essay explores the possibilities for thinking of the body as a site of exposure to and commingling with the world. I begin with Martin Heidegger’s engagement with the question of poetry as an encounter with the non-conceptual dimension of experience (earth). I then show how the disclosure of this non-conceptual dimension of experience in poetry requires an irreducibly bodily form of thought and experience. In the second chapter, I turn to the work of Georges Bataille in order to explore the bodily experiences and meditative practices he developed in the decades around and during World War II. First, I examine his writings concerning eroticism and laughter to show how these bodily experiences exceed conceptual determination and explanation. Lastly, I look at Bataille’s appropriation of medieval mystic Angela of Foligno’s practice of stigmatic meditation as a discipline of bodily exposure.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19323
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBatailleen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectHeideggeren_US
dc.subjectMysticismen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.titlePoetry and Ecstasy: Thinking Bodily with Heidegger and Bataille
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Philosophy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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