Description
Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and continental philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? This book draws together original contributions by leading and emerging international scholars, delineating emerging debates in this growing and dynamic field of research, and spanning mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient, to the medieval, modern, and contemporary. At the heart of which lies Meister Eckhart, perhaps the single most influential Christian mystic for modern times. The book is organised around significant historical and contemporary figures who speak across the intersections of philosophy and theology, offering new insights into key interlocutors such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Isaac Luria, Eckhart, Hegel, Heidegger, Marion, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Laruelle, and Žižek. Designed both to contribute to current trends in mystical theology and philosophy, and elicit dialogue and debate from further afield, this book speaks within an emerging space exploring the retrieval of the mystical within a post-secular context.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God
Part 1: Receiving Mystical Tradition in Post/Modernity
1 Learning Presence: The Mystical Text as Intimate Hyper-communication across time
Oliver Davies
2 God of Luria, Hegel, Schelling: The Divine Contraction and the Modern Metaphysics of Finitude
Agata Bielik-Robson
3 From Text to Presence: Ricoeur and Medieval Monastic Biblical Contemplation
Joseph Milne
Part 2: Apophasis and Continental Philosophy
4 Different Deserts: Deconstructionism and Dionysian Apophaticism
Maria Exall
5 The Apophatic Dimension of Revelation
Miroslav Griško
6 Augustine, Dionysius and Jean-Luc Marion
Rico Monge
Part 3: Revisiting Eckhart through Heidegger
7 The Role of Mysticism in the Formation of Heidegger’s Phenomenology
George Pattison
8 Eckhart’s Why and Heidegger’s What: Beyond Subjectivistic Thought to Groundless Ground
Duane Williams
9 Meister Eckhart's Speculative Grammar: a Foreshadowing of Heidegger’s Der Satz vom Grund?
Christopher M. Wojtulewicz
10 Pay Attention! Exploring Contemplative Pedagogies between Eckhart and Heidegger
David Lewin
Part 4: Re-readings and New Boundaries
11 Mysterium Secretum et Silentoisum: Praying the Apophatic Self
Simon D. Podmore
12 Becoming Mystic, Becoming Monster: The Logic of the Infinite in Kierkegaard, Cusa, and Deleuze
Steven Shakespeare
13 Non-philosophical Immanence, or Immanence without Secularization
Alex Dubilet
14 "Not peace but a sword": Žižek, Dionysius, and the Question of Ancestry in Theology and Philosophy
Marika Rose
