The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought: Being, Nothingness, Love

by Kate Kirkpatrick and George Pattison

Book Overview

At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the language of so-called mystical writers. This book takes on this observation and explores the evidence for the influence of mysticism on the philosophy of existentialism.

It begins by delving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138092371
• ISBN13: 9781138092372
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"