Material spirit : religion and literature intranscendent / edited by Gregory C. Stallings, Manuel Asensi, and Carl Good.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stallings, Gregory C., editor.

Asensi, Manuel, 1959- editor.

Good, Carl, 1965- editor.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Perspectives in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and religion.

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 orrenewed 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Eucharistic Imaginings in Proust andWoolf / Richard Kearney Kearney, Richard 11

Impossible Confessions / Karmen MacKendrick MacKendrick, Karmen 35

The Third Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus / Manuel Asensi Asensi, Manuel 49

Renunciation and Absorption: On the Dimensionality of Baroque Asceticism / Burcht Pranger Pranger, Burcht 59

"For the Life Was Manifested" / Kevin Hart Hart, Kevin 73

Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle / Virginia Burrus Burrus, Virginia 94

"Come forth into the light of things": Material Spirit as Negative Ecopoetics / Kate Rigby Rigby, Kate 111

The Angel and the Storm: "Material Spirit" in the Era of Climate Change / Tom Cohen Cohen, Tom 129

The Material Working of Spirit / J. Hillis Miller Miller, J. Hillis 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823255405

0823255409

9780823255412

0823255417

OCLC:

869457890