Loading...
Deal Detail
Transgression
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.

£32.99

Share this deal

Similar Deals

Save 23%
Product

The Ultimate Guide to Witchcraft: Volume 7

£16.99

£13.20

From Wordery

Save 18%
Product

Stress-Less Leadership

£14.99

£12.36

From Wordery

Save 25%
Product

Path of the Yoga Sutras

£13.99

£10.58

From Wordery

Save 16%
Product

Rosemary Gladstar\'s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health

£11.99

£10.17

From Wordery

 
Product

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition

£26.50

From Wordery

Save 7%
Product

Antiquities in Motion - From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections

£60.84

£57.05

From Wordery

 
Product

Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary - History and ...

£22.78

From Wordery

Save 28%
Product

The Alzheimer\'s Antidote

£22.50

£16.35

From Wordery