Transgressive
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law were of use to their cause." -- Rodion Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment |
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Transgressive means involving transgression; that passes beyond some limit; sinful; going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.
Transgressive and transgression may refer to:
- a legal transgression, a crime
- a social transgression, violating a norm; elements of moral and normative transgression are drugs, sex and violence
- Transgressive art
- Transgressive fiction
- a concept in Bataillean and Bakhtinian philosophy. Georges Bataille was one of the prime theorists of transgression. He emphasized the irrational in opposition to the rational, the erotic as opposed to morality, celebration of excess as opposed to restraint, transgression as opposed to conformity.
Etymology
From trans (“across, beyond”) + gradior (“walk; advance”).
Further reading
- Rabelais and His World (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin
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