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Mystics: Presence and Aporia

Mystics: Presence and Aporia

Kessler, Michael

Paperback

Series: Religion and Postmodernism

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 0226432106
ISBN13: 9780226432106
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 15 2003
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
When we speak of mystics, we normally think of people who have confessed extraordinary experiences of divine presence. But mysticism can also refer to the ways that people have described and explained such phenomena-ways that challenge our normal modes of thinking and believing. And the study of mystics can show problems inherent to experience and language-how to speak and think about what affects people but lies beyond language or thought.

Mystics presents a collection of previously unpublished essays by prominent scholars that consider both the idea of mystics and mysticism. The contributors offer detailed discussions of a variety of mystics from history, including Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Nicholas of Cusa, Saint Teresa of Avila, Martin Luther, and George Herbert. Essays on mysticism in George Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and contemporary technology bring the volume into the twenty-first century.

For anyone interested in the state of current thinking about mysticism, this collection will be an essential touchstone.

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