
- Serrado, Joana
The Discovery of Anxiousness
- Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal
- Kartoniert,
- transcript
- (2024)
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 mysti ...
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- The Discovery of Anxiousness
- Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal
- Serrado, Joana
- Kartoniert, 276 S.
- 2 SW-Abb., 4 Farbabb.
- Sprache: Englisch
- 225.0 mm
- ISBN-13: 978-3-8376-6532-1
- Titelnr.: 96118692
- Gewicht: 432 g
- transcript (2024)
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