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Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature is a collection of essays which considers how recent critical theory contributes to debates about mystical and negative theology. This collection draws upon a wide range of material, including Biblical texts, autobiographical, confessional and fictional writing from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, divinity in English, German, Spanish and French traditions, as well as work on God and metaphysics by Schelling, Weil, Levinas, Derrida, de Ma, Irigaray, and Cixous.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230596597
• Artikelnr.: 45962981

Autorenporträt

ANA BARRO teaches in the Department of Romance Literatures and Cultures, University of Passau, Germany DAVID L. CLARK Associate Professor, Department of English, McMaster University MATT F. CONNELL teaches Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Nottingham PETER CONNOR Assistant Professor of French, Barnard College, Columbia University HÉLEN DOMON Associate Professor of French Studies, California State University, Fullerton BERNARD McGUIRK Chair of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory, University of Nottingham JAMES WINCHELL teaches French at The Northwest Academy in Portland, Oregan SHIRA WOLOSKY previously Associate Professor of English at Yale University, currently at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Inhaltsangabe

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