Mysticism in English Literature by C. F. E. Spurgeon was first published in 1913. Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon looks at the ways in which mystical thought ...
The modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to ...
Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer Evelyn Underhill called it “a certain spiritual and intangible quest ...
Simon Critchley’s new book approaches its subject from many angles, traveling from the Middle Ages to punk rock.
From medieval mystics to T S Eliot and Krautrock, the philosophy professor author with a provocative and personal reflection on existential ecstasy and its origins in mysticism. He reveals how ...
In an exclusive extract from his new book, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy, philiosopher Simon Critchley explains why the only proof of animism he knows is music If mysticism lives on in ...