MYSTICISM AFTER MODERNITY by Don Cupitt ( 9780631207634 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

MYSTICISM AFTER MODERNITY

By:

Don Cupitt

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0631207635

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9780631207634

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

30 October, 1997

Series:

Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World

Pages:

176

Description:

Offers a postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing. This title argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake - the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language.

Synopsis:

"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 does not 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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Blackwell Publishers

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