Trajectories Of Mysticism In Theory And Literature

This book considers how mysticism and negative theology can be reread in response to recent theological work on literature and culture. Essays consider the possibility that mystical and negative theologies challenge the conceptualization of identity and difference in Western theology, and some further argue that mysticism provides a radical trajectory away from the structures of knowledge and identity which prevail in Western culture.

Contains ten Essays which reread mystical and negative theologies in the light of recent literary, critical, and cultural theory.

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Literary and cultural critics from Europe and Anglo-America consider the possibility that mystical and negative theologies challenge the primacy that has been given to how self and others are conceptualized by western theology. They range through various periods, cultures, issues, theorists, forms of representation, and religious paradigms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Philip Leonard is Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University.