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In Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text,
Brad Baumgartner identifies a new genre of modern mystical writing
and examines the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy,
and apophatic mysticism. He reveals how an innovative form of
negative thinking is conjoined to a writing practice which engages
in an interdisciplinary type of intellectual and aesthetic
performance to allow for a simultaneous challenge to literary and
philosophical authority via the speculative (i.e., the mystical
text). Along the way, Baumgartner examines how genre-bending,
literary experimentation, and aphoristic discourse are often rooted
in conjunction with perennial themes such as the beyond and the
Outside. Through a theoretical lens which includes the traditions
of apophatic theology, "the weird," and work in the "speculative
turn" in philosophy, Baumgartner looks at how perennial themes such
as the beyond and the Outside might benefit from a textual analysis
which validates and yet problematizes our critical relationship to
horror. The works of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M.
Cioran are considered alongside the voices of several medieval
mystics and modern philosophers. At a time marked by cultural,
ecological, and economic crises, Weird Mysticism acknowledges the
absolute's very importance to human life and recognizes how the
mystical in some way recuperates the limits of thought in order to
think through them.
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Brad Baumgartner
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