POWER, GENDER AND ECSTASY:MYSTICISM IN POST/MODERNITY
Comtemporary continential philosphers are of course a widely disparate group with vigorous disagreements amongst themselves.Yet it is significant that for all their differences ,many of them accept a notion of the mystical as fundamentally about inarticulate ecstasy, an ecstasy essentially other tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1997
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Literature and theology
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Pages: 385-403 |
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| Summary: | Comtemporary continential philosphers are of course a widely disparate group with vigorous disagreements amongst themselves.Yet it is significant that for all their differences ,many of them accept a notion of the mystical as fundamentally about inarticulate ecstasy, an ecstasy essentially other than rationality. I wish to use the case of Teresa to suggest that this emphasis,together with largely unreconstructed gender assumptions,inhibit their appreciation of the mystical and lead them to mislocate the locus of alterity. If the preoccuption with ecstasy could be replaced with a careful reading of her texts,a much more radical subversion of the assumptions of the r ationality of modernity could be begun. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/11.4.385 |
