The Discovery of Anxiousness Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3837665321
• ISBN-13: 978-3839465325
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld transcript Verlag, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 460178
• Chủ đề: 1. Catholicism; 2. Cultural History; 3. Cultural Studies; 4. Gender; 5. Gender Studies

Tóm tắt

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.