Speculation, heresy, and gnosis in contemporary philosophy of religion : the enigmatic absolute / edited by Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2016]
Description
vi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Reframing continental philosophy of religion [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural institutions, what seems to be needed is an affirmation of the human potential to truck with non-human or even inhuman forces and intentions, at scales of speed, slowness, or intensity that break with consensual conceptions of human limitations. The essays in this volume outline patterns of mind and mortality, existence and ecstasy, creativity and expression, political possibility and religious matrix from a position that takes quite seriously possible relations with the absolute, however enigmatic, that modernity has denied and postmodernity has obscured in the name of academic skepticism and humanist reservations. Beyond post-modernist pastiche and post-secular nostalgia, these essays explore the potencies of archaic spiritual disciplines as well as the passions driving the mystical, heretical, and Gnostic intimations riddling contemporary relations with the absolute.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN
    • 9781786601407 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 1786601400 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 9781786601414 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    • 1786601419 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016040046
    OCLC
    950446548
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