Transgression (Key Ideas)

Ranges widely over the history of ideas, major theorists and the formation of the idea of transgression. Also looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche.
Content: Book Cover; Title; Contents; THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Whither Transgression?; The Centre Cannot Hold; To Have Done With the Judgement of God; Excess; Extreme Seductiveness is at the Boundary of Horror; Journey to the End of the Night; The World Turned Upside Down; Theatres of Cruelty; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Abstract: In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a sweeping overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression.