Transgression

by Chris Jenks

2020-04-21 02:01:34

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 fas... Read more
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. Less

Book Details

File size7.8x5.14x0.65inches
Print pages205
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date March 1, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415257589
Author
Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunel University. He has written numerous books on culture, sociology and childhood. He is interested in sociological theory, post-str...

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