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Weird Mysticism

- Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text
Af: Brad Baumgartner Engelsk Hardback

Weird Mysticism

- Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text
Af: Brad Baumgartner Engelsk Hardback
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In Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, Brad Baumgartner identifies a new genre of modern mystical writing and examines the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism. He reveals how an innovative form of negative thinking is conjoined to a writing practice which engages in an interdisciplinary type of intellectual and aesthetic performance to allow for a simultaneous challenge to literary and philosophical authority via the speculative (i.e., the mystical text).

Along the way, Baumgartner examines how genre-bending, literary experimentation, and aphoristic discourse are often rooted in conjunction with perennial themes such as the beyond and the Outside. Through a theoretical lens which includes the traditions of apophatic theology, “the weird,” and work in the “speculative turn” in philosophy, Baumgartner looks at how perennial themes such as the beyond and the Outside might benefit from a textual analysis which validates and yet problematizes our critical relationship to horror.

The works of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran are considered alongside the voices of several medieval mystics and modern philosophers. At a time marked by cultural, ecological, and economic crises, Weird Mysticism acknowledges the absolute’s very importance to human life and recognizes how the mystical in some way recuperates the limits of thought in order to think through them.

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In Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, Brad Baumgartner identifies a new genre of modern mystical writing and examines the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism. He reveals how an innovative form of negative thinking is conjoined to a writing practice which engages in an interdisciplinary type of intellectual and aesthetic performance to allow for a simultaneous challenge to literary and philosophical authority via the speculative (i.e., the mystical text).

Along the way, Baumgartner examines how genre-bending, literary experimentation, and aphoristic discourse are often rooted in conjunction with perennial themes such as the beyond and the Outside. Through a theoretical lens which includes the traditions of apophatic theology, “the weird,” and work in the “speculative turn” in philosophy, Baumgartner looks at how perennial themes such as the beyond and the Outside might benefit from a textual analysis which validates and yet problematizes our critical relationship to horror.

The works of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran are considered alongside the voices of several medieval mystics and modern philosophers. At a time marked by cultural, ecological, and economic crises, Weird Mysticism acknowledges the absolute’s very importance to human life and recognizes how the mystical in some way recuperates the limits of thought in order to think through them.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 170
ISBN-13: 9781683932871
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1683932870
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: skønlitteratur og forfattere
Udg. Dato: 17 nov 2020
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 160mm
Højde: 230mm
Forlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Oplagsdato: 17 nov 2020
Forfatter(e): Brad Baumgartner
Forfatter(e) Brad Baumgartner

Kategori Litteraturstudier: skønlitteratur og forfattere

ISBN-13 9781683932871

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 170

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 160mm

Højde 230mm

Udg. Dato 17 nov 2020

Oplagsdato 17 nov 2020

Forlag Fairleigh Dickinson University Press