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The essays in this collection examine philosophical, religious, and literary or artistic texts using methodologies and insights that have grown out of reflection on literature and art. In them, them phrase "material spirit" becomes a point of departure for considering the continuing spectral effects of religious texts and concerns in ways that do not simply call for, or assume, new orrenewed forms of religiosity.
The writers in this collection seek to examine religion beyond traditional notions of transcendence: Their topics range from early Christian religious practices to global climate change. Some of the essays explore religious themes or tones in literary texts, for example, works by Wordsworth, Hopkins, Proust, Woolf, and Teresa of Avila. Others approach—in a literarycritical
mood—philosophical or para-philosophical writers such as Bataille, Husserl, Derrida, and Benjamin. Still others treat writers of a more explicitly religious orientation, such as Augustine, Rosenzweig, or Bernard of Clairvaux.
Contents
Introduction Gregory Stallings, Manuel Asensi, and Carl Good Eucharistic Imaginings in Proust and Woolf Richard Kearney Impossible Confessions Karmen MacKendrick The Third Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus Manuel Asensi Renunciation and Absorption: On the Dimensionality of Baroque Asceticism Burcht Pranger "For the Life Was Manifested" Kevin Hart Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle Virginia Burrus "Come forth into the light of things": Material Spirit as Negative Ecopoetics Kate Rigby The Angel and the Storm: "Material Spirit" in the Era of Climate Change Tom Cohen The Material Working of Spirit J. Hillis Miller Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index
