Blessed Excess
Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791413586
Number of Pages: 203
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-Figuring Religion: Toward a Hyperbolic Imagination
1. The (Il)Logic of Excess: The Test Case of "God is Love"
2. More Than Too Much: Kierkegaard's Works of Love Revisited
3. Sacrifice as Surplus: Georges Bataille and the Economy of Excess in Itself
4. Life Over the Edges: Flannery O'Connor's Dis-Grace-Full Extremity
5. Excess (Un)Bound: G. K. Chesterton and the Question of Orthodoxy
6. Figures of Excess: Going Too Far
Epilogue
Notes
Index