Sobering Up To the Other: Levinas Paradoxical View on Mystical Enthusiasm
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https://doi.org/10.12726/tjp.8.1Keywords:
Mysticism, Philosophy, EnglishAbstract
In the thought of Levinas, we discover a double, apparetnly contradictory approach to mystical ethusiasm. Upon closer inspection, however, they do not annul each other but on the contrary need each other. Inthe Period of his first major work, Totality and Infinity, Levinas is quite disapproving of 'mystical enthusiasm'. Later, in the period of his second major work Otherwise than Being or Beyound Essence, the idea of enthusiasm appears once again but the one-sided negative connotation has rather disappeared. Especially Levinas' movement of transDescendence offers prossibilities for a Christian 'thorough reflection' on mysticism, starting from Spirit-theology.
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