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- The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
summary
The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophyThe central question An raises is, How do we mediate the mystical abyss of theology/philosophy and the abyss of socio-political trauma engulfing the colonial subject? What would theopoetics look like in the context where poetics is the means of resistance and survival? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the abyss as the dialectical process in which the self’s dispossession before the encounter with its own finitude is followed by the rediscovery or reconstruction of the self.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- 2. The Mystical Abyss: Via Negativa
- pp. 25-46
- Conclusion
- pp. 141-144
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 145-146
- Bibliography
- pp. 167-178
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
- pp. 181-192
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823273119
Related ISBN(s)
9780823273072
MARC Record
OCLC
954678703
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2016-08-05
Language
English
Open Access
No