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Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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William Blake once wrote that "The road of excess leads to the
palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J.
Kripal reveals how the works of scholars of mysticism are often
rooted in their own mystical experiences, "roads of excess," which
can both lead to important insights into these scholars' works and
point us to our own "palaces of wisdom."
In his new book, Kripal addresses the twentieth-century study of
mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with
its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and
rhetorics of secrecy. Fluidly combining autobiography and biography
with scholarly exploration, Kripal takes us on a tour of
comparative mystical thought by examining the lives and works of
five major historians of mysticism--Evelyn Underhill, Louis
Massignon, R. C. Zaehner, Agehananda Bharati, and Elliot
Wolfson--as well as relating his own mystical experiences. The
result, Kripal finds, is seven "palaces of wisdom": the religious
power of excess, the necessity of distance in the study of
mysticism, the relationship between the mystical and art, the
dilemmas of male subjectivity and modern heterosexuality, a call
for ethical criticism, the paradox of the insider-outsider problem
in the study of religion, and the magical power of texts and their
interpretation.
An original and penetrating analysis of modern scholarship and
scholars of mysticism, "Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom" is also
a persuasive demonstration of the way this scholarly activity is
itself a mystical phenomenon.
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