Trajectories of mysticism in theory and literature [Elektronisk resurs] / Philip Leonard.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN LITERATURE AND THEORY Language and Mysticism in the 'Spiritual Canticle' by St John of the Cross-- A.Barro The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson (As Translated by Paul Celan)-- S.Wolosky Semantics of the Unspeakable: Six Sentences by Simone Weil-- J.Winchell The Fertile Mystical Gaze: From Derrida's Dry Theological Gorge to Cixous's Dialogue Disgorging-- E.Carrera PART II: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN THEORY AND LITERATURE 'Black Fire on White Fire': Kabbalah and Modernity-- H.Domon Otherwise than God: Schelling, Marion-- D.J.Clark 'The Emptiness of Intelligent Questions': Georges Bataille and the Mystical Tradition-- P.Connor Through the Eyes of an Artificial Angel: Secular Theology in Theodor W.Adorno's Freudo-Marxist Reading of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin-- M.F.Connell Divine Horizons: Levinas, Derrida, Transcendence-- P.Leonard Index.

• This book considers how mysticism and negative theology can be re-read in response to recent theoretical work on literature and culture. The essays here consider the possibility that mystical and negative theologies challenge the conceptualization of identity and difference in Western theology. Some contributors argue further - that mysticism provides a radical trajectory away from the structures of knowledge and identity which prevail in Western culture. This collection contains ten distinctive essays which explore a range of periods, cultures, issues, theorists, forms of representation and religious paradigms. They discuss: biblical texts; autobiographical, confessional and fictional writing from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century; divinity in the English, German, Spanish and French traditions; work on God and metaphysics by Schelling, Weil, Levinas, Derrida, de Man, Marion, Irigaray and Cixous; and representations of God in both Christianity and Judaism. 

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Criticism.  (LCSH)

Mysticism and literature.  (LCSH)

Mysticism in literature.  (LCSH)

Theology in literature.  (LCSH)

Religion and literature.  (LCSH)

Mysticism.  (LCSH)

Literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

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