Mysticism
Book - 2024
A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time. This is a book about trying to get outside oneself, to lose oneself, while knowing that the self is not something that can ever be fully lost. It is also a book about Julian of Norwich, Anne Carson, Annie Dillard, T.S. Eliot, and Nick Cave. It shows how listening to music can be secular worship. It is a book full of learning, puzzlement, pleasure, and wonder. It opens the door to mysticism not as something unworldly and unimaginable, but as a way of life.--
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2nd Floor New Shelf | 149.3/Critchley | (NEW SHELF) | Due Dec 30, 2024 |
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
New York Review Books
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781681378244
- Plague Bill
- The Abdication of Ecstasy
- Against Hamlet, away with melancholy
- All shall be well
- We are the music
- What are writers for?
- Brief Lives of Sixteen Mystics
- Part 1. Introduction
- 1. Mysticism's Difficult Definition
- The anachronism of the concept
- Five points about mysticism
- Consciousness, experience, theology, mediation, and exhortation
- William James and mysticism
- Tremendous muchness
- 2. Seven Adverbs That God Loveth
- Obliquely
- Autobiographically
- Vernacularly
- Performatively
- Practically
- Erotically
- Ascetically
- 3. Released Existence
- Affective Dionysianism
- What Meister Eckhart saw
- The poverty that rids us of God
- Detachment
- Part 2. Introduction
- 1. Anne Carson
- A big, loud, shiny center of self
- What is it that love dares the self to do?
- Levitation
- 2. Julian of Norwich
- The three graces
- Suddenness
- The ontology of weal and woe
- What Julian sees, but cannot tell
- Hazelnut, hazel-not
- Purse, blood, rain, herring, mud, and the vernicle at Rome
- Excursus on CarolineBynum
- Taking the side of things
- The paradox of matter
- Adiaphora-are we indifferent to things?
- Kindness
- Julians theology of clothes
- Mother Christ
- The three maternities of Christ (and a pelican)
- It was no raving, you will not be overcome
- Anti-melancholy
- 3. Annie Dillard
- Metaphysics, not logrolling
- Emanance and immanence, vertical and horizontal
- Set yourself on fire
- The moth, the peregrine, Julie Norwich-going at your life with a broad-axe
- Necronautism-Dave Rahm's final dive
- 4. England and Nowhere. Never and Always
- Surrender in Eliot's Four Quartets
- Cosmic and intimate, place and placelessness
- Eliot's Jansenism, Eliot's Julian, and how to stop writing poetry
- The crowned knot
- Negation
- Incarnation
- What I have tried to do in this book
- Animated materiality, paradox, and ritual (Mary Douglas)
- What does mysticism imply for the study of philosophy?
- Mysticism and modern aesthetic experience
- Signaling through the flames that consume us
- Learning to eat time with one's ears (Julian Cope and Krautrock)
- Idiot glee, or music and the Jesus idea
- Confession
- Notes on Sources
- Thanks
- Images
- Bibliography
- Index