Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Trajectories of Mysticism in Literature and Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Language and Mysticism in the ‘Spiritual Canticle’ by St John of the Cross

      • Ana Barro

      Pages 3-24

   3. The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson (As Translated by Paul Celan)

      • Shira Wolosky

      Pages 25-45

   4. On the Trajectory of Gnosis: Pierre Reverdy via (obscura) St John of the Cross

      • Bernard Mcguirk

      Pages 46-71

   5. Semantics of the Unspeakable: Six Sentences by Simone Weil

      • James Winchell

      Pages 72-93

   6. The Fertile Mystical Maze: from Derrida’s Dry Theological Gorge to Cixous’s Dialogic Disgorging

      • Elena Carrera

      Pages 94-112

3. Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ‘Black Fire on White Fire’: Kabbalah and Modernity

      • Hélène Domon

      Pages 115-132

   3. Otherwise than God: Schelling, Marion

      • David L. Clark

      Pages 133-176

   4. ‘The Emptiness of Intelligent Questions’: Georges Bataille and the Mystical Tradition

      • Peter Connor

      Pages 177-197

   5. Through the Eyes of an Artificial Angel: Secular Theology in Theodor W. Adorno’s Freudo-Marxist Reading of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin

      • Matt F. Connell

      Pages 198-218

   6. Divine Horizons: Levinas, Derrida, Transcendence

      • Philip Leonard

      Pages 219-238

4. Back Matter

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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.

• dialogue
• English
• English literature
• fiction
• Franz Kafka
• German
• Jacques Derrida
• knowledge
• literature
• Marx
• metaphysics
• physics
• semantic
• Spanish
• Theodor W. Adorno

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Philip Leonard

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

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