On Mysticism (eBook)

The Experience of Ecstasy

Simon Critchley (Autor)

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2024
317 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-695-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'Philosopher Simon Critchley's painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity's great outliers' 'Book of the Day', Guardian'A playful, profound new study of mysticism ... generous and animated' Brian DillonMysticism 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.

Rezensionen

Ambitious

Insightful and imaginative ... remarkable ... [Critchley] hopes to instil a healthy dose of mystical weirdness in mainstream philosophy

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."

[A] playful and profound new study of mysticism ... A lucid, genial guide

A joyous book ... [an] engaging study of mysticism [that's] well worth reading

Interesting and intelligent ... Witty and fresh ... A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake

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

Philosopher Simon Critchley's painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity's great outliers

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Church • Jesus Christ • Medieval History Books • Meditations • Mindfulness • Mysticism • philosophy books • psychedelics • Religion • self-help books • Stoicism
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-695-2 / 1800816952
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-695-4 / 9781800816954