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Ecologies of Ecstasy: Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life - Couverture souple

Kotva, Simone

 
9780231213974: Ecologies of Ecstasy: Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231213972 ISBN 13 : 9780231213974
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2026

Synopsis

What might religious practice learn from plants? Recent years have seen the emergence of critical plant studies, and philosophers have found a radical mode of thought in vegetal life. Ecologies of Ecstasy recasts religious contemplation as a form of vegetal being, arguing that spiritual practice is rooted in the generation of life on earth.

Simone Kotva explores the role of vegetal life in the history of Christian mysticism and the practice of contemplation, demonstrating its significance to the concept of mystical union, which rests on the loss of distinction between self and world. She shows that plants, animals, and other creatures were once understood to exist by virtue of contemplation and examines how religious orthodoxies suppressed this idea. Ecologies of Ecstasy provides fresh readings of texts by figures such as Plotinus, Evagrius of Pontus, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Porete, the Helfta mystics, and Jeanne Guyon in light of contemporary philosophies of vegetal life and critical plant studies. It brings together feminist, queer, and ecocritical readings of Christian mysticism with continental philosophy and the works of Michael Marder, Emanuele Coccia, and Luce Irigaray. Entwining Christian contemplation with philosophies of vegetal life, this book offers new ways to understand mysticism and spiritual practice.

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À propos de l'auteur

Simone Kotva is senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (2020).

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231213972
ISBN 13 
9780231213974
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Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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