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  • Transgression

    Transgression by Jenks, Chris;

    Series: Key Ideas;

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      • Publisher's listprice GBP 37.99
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        19 226 Ft (18 311 Ft + 5% VAT)
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      • Discounted price 15 381 Ft (14 649 Ft + 5% VAT)

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    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
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    Short description:

    In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a broad overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression.

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    Long description:

    Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie.

    In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression. He looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche and the increasing preoccupation with transgression itself in Baudelaire, Bataille and Foucault. The second half of the book looks at transgression in action in the East End myth of the Kray twins, in Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the spectacle of the Situationists and Bakhtin's analysis of carnival. Finally Jenks extends his treatment of transgression to its own extremity.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Whither Transgression?  2. The Centre Cannot Hold  3. To Have Done the Judgement of God  4. Excess  5. Extreme Seductiveness is at the Boundary of Horror  6. Journey to the End of the Night  7. The World Turned Upside Down  8. Theatres of Cruelty

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