Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and

This book considers how mysticism and negative theology can be reread in response to recent theological work on literature and culture. Essays consider the possibility that mystical and negative theologies challenge the conceptualization of identity and difference in Western theology, and some further argue that mysticism provides a radical trajectory away from the structures of knowledge and identity which prevail in Western culture.

Philip Leonard is Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University.

Notes on contributors

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

x

Part I Trajectories of Mysticism in Literature and Theory

1

(112)

Language and Mysticism in the `Spiritual Canticle' by St John of the Cross

3

(22)

Ana Barro

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

25

(21)

Shira Wolosky

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

46

(26)

Bernard McGuirk

Semantics of the Unspeakable: Six Sentences by Simone Weil

72

(22)

James Winchell

The Fertile Mystical Maze: from Derrida's Dry Theological Gorge to Cixous's Dialogic Disgorging

94

(19)

Elena Carrera

Part II Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature

113

(126)

`Black Fire on White Fire': Kabbalah and Modernity

115

(18)

Helene Domon

Otherwise than God: Schelling, Marion

133

(44)

David L. Clark

`The Emptiness of Intelligent Questions': Georges Bataille and the Mystical Tradition

177

(21)

Peter Connor

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

198

(21)

Matt F. Connell

Divine Horizons: Levinas, Derrida, Transcendence

219

(20)

Philip Leonard

Index

239

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