| Mysticism After Modernity Contributor(s): Cupitt, Don (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631207635 ISBN-13: 9780631207634 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $150.43 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: "Mysticism After Modernity" offers a truly postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing, thus appealing to readers across a wide range of disciplines. Don Cuppitt argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake-the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language. The mystics have been perceived as first having had profound experiences that they then put into words. However, in postmodern thought experience doesnot give meaning to language; on the contrary, language gives meaning to experience. And when the mystics are seen as having been primarily writers, our understanding of them is revolutionized. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Devotional |
| Dewey: 291 |
| LCCN: 97011925 |
| Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.18" W x 9.32" (1.80 lbs) 176 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language. |
