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Informationen zum Autor Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is author of Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl and editor-in-chief of Continental Philosophy Review. Klappentext Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from theChristian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions -- St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi DovBaer, and R zbih n Baql -- Anthony J. Steinbock provides a completephenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates abroad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems ofevidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of verticalexperience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry-- as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism -- and suggests that contemporaryunderstandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view ofreligious experience. Zusammenfassung Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions - St Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Ruzbihan Baqli, this title provides a phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertical Givenness in Human Experience 1. The Religious and Mystical Shape of Experience 2. St. Teresa of Avila and Mysticism of Prayer 3. Rabbi Dov Baer and Mysticism of Ecstasy 4. R¿zbih¿n Baql¿ and Mysticism of Unveiling 5. Matters of Evidence in Religious Experience 6. Epiphany and Withdrawal 7. On Individuation 8. Idolatry Epilogue: On the De-Limitation of the Religious and the Moral Glossary of Main Hebrew and Arabic Terms Notes Bibliography Index
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Vertical Givenness in Human Experience
1. The Religious and Mystical Shape of Experience
2. St. Teresa of Avila and Mysticism of Prayer
3. Rabbi Dov Baer and Mysticism of Ecstasy
4. R¿zbih¿n Baql¿ and Mysticism of Unveiling
5. Matters of Evidence in Religious Experience
6. Epiphany and Withdrawal
7. On Individuation
8. Idolatry
Epilogue: On the De-Limitation of the Religious and the Moral
Glossary of Main Hebrew and Arabic Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
