A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch - Softcover

Lazenby, Donna J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474242049 ISBN 13: 9781474242042

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Revealing, in an original and provocative study, the mystical contents of the works of famous atheists Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, Donna Lazenby shows how these thinkers' refusal to construe worldviews on available reductive models brought them to offer radically alternative pictures of life which maintain its mysteriousness, and promote a mystical way of knowing. A Mystical Philosophy contributes to the contemporary resurgence of interest in Spirituality, but from an entirely new direction.

This book provides a warning against reductive scientific and philosophical models that impoverish our understanding of ourselves and the world, and a powerful endorsement of ways of knowing that give art, and a restored concept of contemplation, their consummative place.

About this title

Book Description:

A provocative re-reading of famous atheists Irish Murdoch and Virginia Woolf as profoundly mystical thinkers.

About the Author:

Donna J. Lazenby is an Anglican Priest. She has a PhD in Theology from Cambridge University, UK which won The John Templeton Award for Theological Promise 2011. Her current research is on conceptions of Life, Death and Afterlife in the contemporary Imagination, as revealed through popular culture and literary fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474242049
• ISBN 13: 9781474242042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344