Woodslane | Book - 9781786610560

Add to Cart

ISBN-13: 9781786610560
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
By J.L. Chretien, Translated by Anne Ashley Davenport
Price: AUD $319.00
Stock: 1 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 14/05/2019
Format: Hardback (235.00mm X 160.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 470g
Categories: Literature & literary studies [D]

Description
Table of Contents
Google Preview: In this important volume, French philosopher and poet J.L. Chretien boldly and subtly applies his vast experience in phenomenology to poetry and literature - showing indeed how to bridge the boundary with philosophy. His real aim is implicit and brave: to show that spiritual authors from Augustine to Claudel surpass Bergson in their philosophical grasp of intuition and joy. He thus claims new turf for spiritual authors in the context of examining an important human constellation of emotions. The approach is exquisitely multi-disciplinary and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the phenomenology of religious experience. Available in English for the first time, his work will be of immediate interest to philosophers, theologians, literary critics, psychologists, art historians and sociologists.; Translator's Note Introduction: Spaciousness, Joy, and the Legacy of the Word "Dilation" Chapter One: St. Augustine and the Wide Offshore of Desire Chapter Two: St. Gregory the Great: Amplitude Within a Narrow Confinement Chapter Three: The Dilated Runners of Psalm 118, from Henri Michaux to St. Teresa Chapter Four: Mystical Dilations Chapter Five: Bossuet on the Open Roads Chapter Six: Amiel and the Pathology of Dilation Chapter Seven: Return to Eden with Thomas Traherne Chapter Eight: Whitman, Voyager Without Limits Chapter Nine: Paul Claudel's Cosmic Respiration Further Reading; Google Preview content