The Discovery of Anxiousness : : Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal.
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 Jesu...
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| Superior document: | Studien der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 383946532X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |