Phenomenology of Mysticism

Gerda Walther (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

530 Seiten

2026
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-076308-9 (ISBN)

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Mystical experience continues to fascinate human beings across different cultures and traditions. Deploying the phenomenological method, Gerda Walther's Phenomenology of Mysticism explores the conditions that make mystical experience possible, that is, how it is that human beings make sense of mystical phenomena. Unlike historical and anthropological sudies of mysticism across cultures, Walther maintains that to phenomenlogically grasp the sense of mystical experience certain conditions must obtain: All encounters with a living divinity require the relating subject to be configured as a human person consituted as a lived unity of body, psyche, and what Gerda calls a fundamental essence or spirit. Without such a configuration of the human person, unique intersubjective experiences with a divinity prove impossible. For Walther, such personal relations lay the ground for human interiorty to encounter God and the uniqueness of God to become manifest to human beings. Without Walther's personal structure, encounter with and understanding what a divinity reveals cannot be expereinced. Walther presents the subjective and intersubjective elements that make mystical experience possible.

Antonio Calcagno, King's University College (University of Western Ontario), Toronto, Canada.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.2026
Reihe/Serie	Women Philosophers Heritage Collection
Übersetzer	Antonio Calcagno
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Original-Titel	Phänomenologie der Mystik
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Das Göttliche • Mysticism • Mystik • Phänomenologie • Phenomenology • structure of the person • Struktur der Person • the Divine
ISBN-10	3-11-076308-7 / 3110763087
ISBN-13	978-3-11-076308-9 / 9783110763089
Zustand	Neuware