The Poetics of Transcendence (Currents of Encounter, Band 51) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042039280 ISBN 13: 9789042039285

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The present "turn to religion" has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and generated. This has also meant revisiting the long Christian tradition, not simply to rehabilitate it but as an indispensable source for present writing and thinking.
"Thus, ultimately, the present anthology offers no apology for traditional views of transcendence and religious experience but presents original contributions to the poetics of transcendence that are sensitive to religious as well as a-religious languages in literature. It is argued that, in order to rethink meanings and the value of transcendence, rigorous ontological philosophy must once again face up to the imaginative potential of poetics." (From the Introduction)

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elisa Heinämäki is a postdoctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

P.M. Mehtonen is an independent researcher and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Antti Salminen is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland, specializing in the philosophy of literature and avant-garde poetics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9042039280
• ISBN 13: 9789042039285
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
• Herausgeber: Heinämäki Elisa
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland