Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature

PHILIP LEONARD is lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University where he teaches Critical Theory and twentieth-century literature. He has published articles on Levinas, Derrida, Spivak, Bhabha, Joyce, and Rushdie.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN LITERATURE AND THEORY Language and Mysticism in the 'Spiritual Canticle' by St John of the Cross; A.Barro The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson (As Translated by Paul Celan); S.Wolosky Semantics of the Unspeakable: Six Sentences by Simone Weil; J.Winchell The Fertile Mystical Gaze: From Derrida's Dry Theological Gorge to Cixous's Dialogue Disgorging; E.Carrera PART II: TRAJECTORIES OF MYSTICISM IN THEORY AND LITERATURE 'Black Fire on White Fire': Kabbalah and Modernity; H.Domon Otherwise than God: Schelling, Marion; D.J.Clark 'The Emptiness of Intelligent Questions': Georges Bataille and the Mystical Tradition; P.Connor Through the Eyes of an Artificial Angel: Secular Theology in Theodor W.Adorno's Freudo-Marxist Reading of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin; M.F.Connell Divine Horizons: Levinas, Derrida, Transcendence ; P.Leonard Index