Download or read book Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature written by P. Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature is a collection of essays which considers how recent critical theory contributes to debates about mystical and negative theology. This collection draws upon a wide range of material, including Biblical texts, autobiographical, confessional and fictional writing from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, divinity in English, German, Spanish and French traditions, as well as work on God and metaphysics by Schelling, Weil, Levinas, Derrida, de Ma, Irigaray, and Cixous.