The Discovery of Anxiousness - Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal
Verlag | transcript |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 276 |
Format | 14,4 x 2,6 x 22,6 cm |
Gewicht | 432 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Studien der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2 |
ISBN-10 | 3837665321 |
EAN | 9783837665321 |
Bestell-Nr | 83766532A |
Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term »saudade« (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.