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Record Nr.

UNISA996248282203316

Autore

Asensi Manuel

Titolo

Material Spirit : Religion and Literature Intranscendent / / Carl Good, Manuel Asensi; Gregory C. Stallings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8232-5543-3

0-8232-6114-X

0-8232-5544-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 229 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Disciplina

210

Soggetti

Philosophy and religion

Religion and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Eucharistic Imaginings in Proust and Woolf -- Impossible Confessions -- The Third Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus -- Renunciation and Absorption -- “For the Life Was Manifested” -- Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle -- “Come forth into the light of things” -- The Angel and the Storm -- The Material Working of Spirit -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this collection examine philosophical, religious, and literary or artistic texts using methodologies and insights that have grown out of reflection on literature and art. In them, them phrase “material spirit” becomes a point of departure for considering the continuing spectral effects of religious texts and concerns in ways that do not simply call for, or assume, new or renewed forms of religiosity. The writers in this collection seek to examine religion beyond traditional notions of transcendence: Their topics range from early Christian religious practices to global climate change. Some of the essays explore religious themes or tones in literary texts, for example, works by Wordsworth, Hopkins, Proust, Woolf, and Teresa of Avila. Others approach—in a literary critical mood—philosophical or para-



philosophical writers such as Bataille, Husserl, Derrida, and Benjamin. Still others treat writers of a more explicitly religious orientation, such as Augustine, Rosenzweig, or Bernard of Clairvaux.