商品簡介
Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and continental philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? This book draws together original contributions by leading and emerging international scholars, delineating emerging debates in this growing and dynamic field of research, and spanning mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient, to the medieval, modern, and contemporary. At the heart of which lies Meister Eckhart, perhaps the single most influential Christian mystic for modern times. The book is organised around significant historical and contemporary figures who speak across the intersections of philosophy and theology, offering new insights into key interlocutors such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Isaac Luria, Eckhart, Hegel, Heidegger, Marion, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Laruelle, and Zizek. Designed both to contribute to current trends in mystical theology and philosophy, and elicit dialogue and debate from further afield, this book speaks within an emerging space exploring the retrieval of the mystical within a post-secular context.
作者簡介
Prior to joining Liverpool Hope University Simon Podmore was the Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. Prior to this he held positions at the Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, USA, and at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (2011), explores the difficult relationship between consciousness of self and consciousness of God with reference to the problem of the infinite qualitative difference? between the human and the divine. Dr David Lewin is senior lecturer in Philosophy of Education at Liverpool Hope University. He is Director of the University's Philosophy of Education Research Forum and Associate Director of the Centre for Educational Policy Analysis (CEPA). He is also associate editor for Medieval Mystical Theology: The Journal of the Eckhart Society. His research on the interface between philosophy of religion and technology has resulted in numerous publications including the monograph ’Technology and the Philosophy of Religion’ (2011) and a co-edited book on the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, From Ricoeur to Action (2013). More recently David has been working on a number of projects within the philosophy of education resulting in several articles (published within the Journal of the Philosophy of Education and Ethics and Education) and an edited book New Directions in Philosophy of Education (2014). He has recently been awarded a large grant from the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain to complete the monograph Educational Philosophy for a Postsecular Age (2016) in which David argues for a re-construction of the role of religion in educational theory and practice following the ’return of religion’ in recent cultural discourse.