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1 online resource |
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part One: The Point of Departure; 2. The Point of Departure: Readdressing the Mystical in Virginia Woolf; (i) Readdressing the Mystical in Woolf: A Literary Context; (ii) Readdressing the Mystical in Woolf: A Philosophical and Aesthetic Context; 3. The Point of Departure : Readdressing the Mystical in Iris Murdoch; (i) Mysticism in Murdoch: A Philosophical and Aesthetic Context; Part Two: A Mystical Philosophy |
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4. Exploring the Cataphatic Dimension of Virginia Woolf 's Work: Virginia Woolf and Plotinus(i) On Unity; (ii) The Mystical Self; (iii) Vision and Light; (iv) Love and Ecstasy: The Ethics of Vision; 5. Exploring the Cataphatic Dimension of Iris Murdoch's Work; (i) On Unity; (ii) The Restored (Mystical) Self; (iii) Vision and Light: the Process of Becoming; (iv) The Ethics of Vision: Love and the Everyday; 6. Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Virginia Woolf 's Work: Virginia Woolf, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Aesthetics of Excess; (i) Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Woolf 's Literature |
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(Ii) The Mystical Shape of a Theological Aesthetic7. Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Iris Murdoch's Work: An Iconoclastic Pilgrimage; Part Three: Contributions to a Contemporary Theological Aesthetic; 8. Conclusion: Mystical Contributions to a Theological Aesthetic: Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch; Concluding Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"A Mystical Philosophy contributes to the contemporary resurgence of interest in Spirituality, but from a new direction. Revealing, in an original and provocative study, the mystical contents of the works of famous atheists Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, Donna Lazenby shows how these thinkers' refusal to construe worldviews on available reductive models brought them to offer radically alternative pictures of life which maintain its mysteriousness, and promote a mystical way of knowing. This book makes a daring claim: that a return to 'pure' experience is sufficient to demonstrate, for the contemporary imagination, the irreducibly mystical contents of everyday life: and, therefore, the enduring appropriateness of theological conversations. Lazenby reveals how these atheist thinkers offer crucial spiritual-intellectual advice for our times: a warning against reductive scientific and philosophical models that impoverish our understanding of our selves and the world, and a powerful endorsement of ways of knowing that give art, and a restored concept of contemplation, their consummative place"-- Provided by publisher |
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"A provocative re-reading of famous atheists Irish Murdoch and Virginia Woolf as profoundly mystical thinkers"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Murdoch, Iris fast |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Spirituality in literature.
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Mysticism.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Philosophy of religion.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Mysticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Spirituality in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472523105 |
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1472523105 |
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147252554X |
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9781472525543 |
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9781472594457 |
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1472594452 |
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