The Mystic Fable: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, written by Michel de Certeau
About: This article is published in Journal of Jesuit Studies.The article was published on 2017-08-08 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Church history & World history.
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23 Nov 2015
TL;DR: In the yearnings of the soul as discussed by the authors, a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally is uncovered: psychology returning to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul.
Abstract: In Yearnings of the Soul, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold interactions between psychology and spirituality that have arisen over five centuries of Kabbalistic writing, from sixteenth-century Galilee to twenty-first-century New York. In doing so, he shows just how rich Kabbalah's psychological tradition is and how much it can offer to the corpus of modern psychological knowledge. Garb follows the gradual disappearance of the soul from modern philosophy while drawing attention to its continued persistence as a topic in literature and popular culture. He pays close attention to James Hillman's "archetypal psychology," using it to engage critically with the psychoanalytic tradition and reflect anew on the cultural and political implications of the return of the soul to contemporary psychology. Comparing Kabbalistic thought to adjacent developments in Catholic, Protestant, and other popular expressions of mysticism, Garb ultimately offers a thought-provoking argument for the continued relevance of religion to the study of psychology.
51 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the extent to which Russia is a revisionist power challenging the "liberal world order" and there is little agreement on the primary motives explaining this.
Abstract: Many policy and academic debates focus on the extent to which Russia is a revisionist power challenging the ‘liberal world order’. However, there is little agreement on the primary motives explaini...
26 citations
TL;DR: The anthropologist Talal Asad as mentioned in this paper reviewed methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work and touched on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
Abstract: In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
16 citations
TL;DR: The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity as mentioned in this paper, however defined, vision and divine voice are at the heart of religious experience.
Abstract: Vision and divine voice, however defined, are at the heart of religious experience. The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity. After chron...
12 citations
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...On the relationship between these sensory experiences, De Certeau (1986) writes,...
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...What we see here is an inversion of the principle that the divine word requires interpretation and builds its power on the revelation of a secret (‘the secret is the precondition for hermeneutics’; De Certeau, 1992: 99)....
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23 Nov 2015
TL;DR: In the yearnings of the soul as discussed by the authors, a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally is uncovered: psychology returning to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul.
Abstract: In Yearnings of the Soul, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold interactions between psychology and spirituality that have arisen over five centuries of Kabbalistic writing, from sixteenth-century Galilee to twenty-first-century New York. In doing so, he shows just how rich Kabbalah's psychological tradition is and how much it can offer to the corpus of modern psychological knowledge. Garb follows the gradual disappearance of the soul from modern philosophy while drawing attention to its continued persistence as a topic in literature and popular culture. He pays close attention to James Hillman's "archetypal psychology," using it to engage critically with the psychoanalytic tradition and reflect anew on the cultural and political implications of the return of the soul to contemporary psychology. Comparing Kabbalistic thought to adjacent developments in Catholic, Protestant, and other popular expressions of mysticism, Garb ultimately offers a thought-provoking argument for the continued relevance of religion to the study of psychology.
51 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the extent to which Russia is a revisionist power challenging the "liberal world order" and there is little agreement on the primary motives explaining this.
Abstract: Many policy and academic debates focus on the extent to which Russia is a revisionist power challenging the ‘liberal world order’. However, there is little agreement on the primary motives explaini...
26 citations
TL;DR: The anthropologist Talal Asad as mentioned in this paper reviewed methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work and touched on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
Abstract: In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
16 citations
TL;DR: The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity as mentioned in this paper, however defined, vision and divine voice are at the heart of religious experience.
Abstract: Vision and divine voice, however defined, are at the heart of religious experience. The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity. After chron...
12 citations