On Mysticism
Autor Simon Critchleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2024
Mysticism is about existential ecstasy - an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Here, Simon Critchley explores the history and practice of mysticism, from its origins
in Eastern and Western religion, through its association with esoteric and occult knowledge, and up to the ecstatic modernism of T.S. Eliot and others.
Through a discussion of the lives of famous mystics, like Julian of Norwich and Jesus Christ, Critchley reveals how embracing the spectrum of mystical experience can refresh our thinking and help us live deeper and freer lives. Philosophical and playful, analytical and inventive, On Mysticism is a definitive account of humanity's quest to understand the divine, and a call to thinkers everywhere to broaden our minds to life larger than our selves.
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Notă biografică
Simon Critchley is a philosopher, writer and Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has authored dozens of books, including On Bowie (2016), What We Think About When We Think About Football (2017) and Tragedy, the Greeks and Us (2019). His work focuses on countering nihilism and disappointment, and he has written on Shakespeare, Bowie and association football.
Recenzii
Critchley displays strong scholarship ... the book's power is that it treats the topic with rigour and rationality'
On Mysticism is a meandering delight, as quietly soul-nourishing as it is brain-stretching... Critchley is a generous enthusiast, as unpretentious as he is distinguished....For all his readability, he is a serious academic. You have to pay careful attention. But it pays off: this book is a real intellectual adventure.
Insightful and imaginative ... remarkable ... [Critchley] hopes to instil a healthy dose of mystical weirdness in mainstream philosophy
Philosopher Simon Critchley's painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity's great outliers
A joyous book ... [an] engaging study of mysticism [that's] well worth reading
Ambitious
[A] playful and profound new study of mysticism ... A lucid, genial guide
Highly original and enjoyable ... Critchley is determined to strip himself of both scepticism and irony in order to plainly ask how we can all increase our daily "capacity for belief and for joy."
Critchley, who respects mystics not just as visionaries but as excellent writers, argues that they can show us sad moderns how to pass out of yourself and into some wider unity
What [On Mysticism] does more than anything is to turn us back to the original writing and images and our own thinking. Simon Critchley should be thanked for that. He is a writer but the best kind of teacher too
Exceptional and riveting to read ... On Mysticism takes seriously a subject most secular philosophers have dismissed out of hand
Critchley's inquiry spans centuries and sensibilities; it is ancient and fiercely contemporary; it is practical and existential; it is high and low ... He questions and reiterates, plumbing deeper into the great beating heart of the world ... Critchley's offer to the reader is simple: Wouldn't you like to feel the transfigurative power of self-annihilation? The rapturous ecstasy of love? Wouldn't you like to glimpse the ravishing far-near