Spacious Joy

J.L. Chretien

doi:10.5771/9781786610584

Summary

In this important volume, French philosopher and poet J.L. Chrétien boldly and subtly applies his vast experience in phenomenology to poetry and literature – showing indeed how to bridge the boundary with philosophy. His real aim is implicit and brave: to show that spiritual authors from Augustine to Claudel surpass Bergson in their philosophical grasp of intuition and joy. He thus claims new turf for spiritual authors in the context of examining an important human constellation of emotions. The approach is exquisitely multi-disciplinary and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the phenomenology of religious experience. Available in English for the first time, his work will be of immediate interest to philosophers, theologians, literary critics, psychologists, art historians and sociologists.

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-056-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-058-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 198
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Translator’s Note No access
Introduction: Spaciousness, Joy, and the Legacy of the Word “Dilation” No access Pages 1 - 19
1 Saint Augustine and the Wide Offshore of Desire No access Pages 20 - 43
2 Saint Gregory the Great: Amplitude within a Narrow Confinement No access Pages 44 - 61
3 The Dilated Runners of Psalm 118, from Henri Michaux to Saint Teresa No access Pages 62 - 84
4 Mystical Dilations No access Pages 85 - 96
5 Bossuet on the Open Roads No access Pages 97 - 109
6 Amiel and the Pathology of Dilation No access Pages 110 - 125
7 Return to Eden with Thomas Traherne No access Pages 126 - 149
8 Whitman, Voyager without Limits No access Pages 150 - 165
9 Paul Claudel’s Cosmic Respiration No access Pages 166 - 188
Further Reading No access Pages 189 - 189
Index No access Pages 190 - 197
About the Author and Translator No access Pages 198 - 198