Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

by Robert M. Wallace

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350267384
• ISBN13: 9781350267381
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"