Speculation, heresy, and gnosis in contemporary philosophy of religion : the enigmatic absolute / edited by Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramey, Joshua Alan, 1975- editor.

Farris, Matthew S. Haar, editor.

Series:

Reframing continental philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

vi, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2016]

Summary:

Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural institutions, what seems to be needed is an affirmation of the human potential to truck with non-human or even inhuman forces and intentions, at scales of speed, slowness, or intensity that break with consensual conceptions of human limitations. The essays in this volume outline patterns of mind and mortality, existence and ecstasy, creativity and expression, political possibility and religious matrix from a position that takes quite seriously possible relations with the absolute, however enigmatic, that modernity has denied and postmodernity has obscured in the name of academic skepticism and humanist reservations. Beyond post-modernist pastiche and post-secular nostalgia, these essays explore the potencies of archaic spiritual disciplines as well as the passions driving the mystical, heretical, and Gnostic intimations riddling contemporary relations with the absolute.

Contents:

Part I Speculations (I): Futures of the Absolute 15

1 First Reflections on the Idea of a Speculative Pragmatics / Daniel Whistler Whistler, Daniel 17

2 Sorcery, Thought and the Ghosts of Departed Quantities / Matt Lee Lee, Matt 31

3 Meillassoux's Messianicity / Mark Mason Mason, Mark, Michael O'Rourke O'Rourke, Michael 45

4 A Broken Line: Lucretian Lineage in The Logic of Sense / Jessie Hock Hock, Jessie 61

Part II Speculations (II): Visionary Conditions 73

5 The Nebular Experience: Towards a Politics of Perception / Juan Salzano Salzano, Juan 75

6 Spectral Bodies of Evidence / Erin Yerby Yerby, Erin 91

7 The Inner Flesh: Michel Henry's Mystic Phenomenology / Erik Davis Davis, Erik 105

8 Some Admittedly Bold Interdisciplinary 'Participatory Turn' Hypotheses for Scholarly Collaboration with the Divine / Matthew S. Haar Farris Farris, Matthew S. Haar 117

9 The gods are dead 'Long live the gods' Kierkegaard, Chaos and Hermes / Steven Shakespeare Shakespeare, Steven 133

Part III Heresy: Experiments 145

10 'More Than Human' / Sam Webster Webster, Sam 147

11 Red, White & Pig: On Sexmagic, Christ, & Chthonic America / Clark Roth Roth, Clark 157

12 Genericity, Convexity: Instructions / Rocco Gangle Gangle, Rocco 167

13 'life in the absolute': 20 secular philosophical spiritual exercises / Jason Smick Smick, Jason 175

14 The Undulating Unknown / ná Khar Elliff-ce Elliff-ce, ná Khar 193

Part IV Gnosis: Creatures of Saying and Unsaying 209

15 Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes and the Connective Distinction / Beatrice Maruvich Maruvich, Beatrice 211

16 Unpossessed Knowledge / Daniel Colucciello Barber Barber, Daniel Colucciello 221

17 Humiliated in Language: On Translation and Taqqyia / Anthony Paul Smith Smith, Anthony Paul 233

18 Freeing Immanence from the Grip of Philosophy: On Univocity and Experimentalism in Meister Eckhart / Alex Dubilet Dubilet, Alex 247

19 Cosmic Pessimism / Eugene Thacker Thacker, Eugene 259

20 Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation / Nicola Masciandaro Masciandaro, Nicola 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Speculation, heresy, and gnosis in contemporary philosophy of religion.

ISBN:

9781786601407

1786601400

9781786601414

1786601419

OCLC:

950446548

Publisher Number:

99969920685