Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1584351179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence. “Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that's been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain one's senses and one's sense of self.” —from Lost Dimension Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls, the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our pockets. In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio describes the effects of today's hyperreality on our understanding of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary: a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.
Lost Dimension, new edition
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1584351179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence. “Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that's been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain one's senses and one's sense of self.” —from Lost Dimension Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls, the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our pockets. In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio describes the effects of today's hyperreality on our understanding of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary: a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1584351179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence. “Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that's been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain one's senses and one's sense of self.” —from Lost Dimension Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls, the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our pockets. In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio describes the effects of today's hyperreality on our understanding of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary: a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.
Eschatology and Space
Author: V. Westhelle
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137108274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This unique volume focuses on the subjects of time in the area of theology known as 'eschatology,' the consideration of the fullness, the limit, and the goal of time. He traces the historical development of understandings of eschatology from the Bible to contemporary theology and adds a postcolonial/subaltern perspective.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137108274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This unique volume focuses on the subjects of time in the area of theology known as 'eschatology,' the consideration of the fullness, the limit, and the goal of time. He traces the historical development of understandings of eschatology from the Bible to contemporary theology and adds a postcolonial/subaltern perspective.
Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Volume 2
Author: Gordon Rennie
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785865943
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
An all-new adventure – with all the Doctors! The universe is collapsing, swallowed up into the void – and the people of Earth have turned against the Doctor, forcing him to team up with his past and future selves. The unprecedented crossover between all thirteen Doctors continues, as the secret of the void is revealed, the Fourth Doctor and River Song play crucial parts in the survival of all of Time and Space, and the final, spectacular conflict is engaged! Writers George Mann (‘Dark Souls’), Cavan Scott (‘Tekken’), Gordon Rennie (‘Fighting American’), Emma Beeby (‘Mata Hari’), and artists including Rachael Stott, Mariano Laclaustra, Ivan Rodriguez, Wellington Diaz, and many more bring this universe-shattering tale to its amazing conclusion! Collects the second half of the Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension event: Special #1 and #2, 12D #3.8 and Omega. “A fast-paced story that will keep your attention” – Clearing Out the Clutter “Every time a new Doctor appeared so did a smile on my face.” – Nerdly “Expansive, charming and gorgeous. 9 out of 10.” – Newsarama
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785865943
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
An all-new adventure – with all the Doctors! The universe is collapsing, swallowed up into the void – and the people of Earth have turned against the Doctor, forcing him to team up with his past and future selves. The unprecedented crossover between all thirteen Doctors continues, as the secret of the void is revealed, the Fourth Doctor and River Song play crucial parts in the survival of all of Time and Space, and the final, spectacular conflict is engaged! Writers George Mann (‘Dark Souls’), Cavan Scott (‘Tekken’), Gordon Rennie (‘Fighting American’), Emma Beeby (‘Mata Hari’), and artists including Rachael Stott, Mariano Laclaustra, Ivan Rodriguez, Wellington Diaz, and many more bring this universe-shattering tale to its amazing conclusion! Collects the second half of the Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension event: Special #1 and #2, 12D #3.8 and Omega. “A fast-paced story that will keep your attention” – Clearing Out the Clutter “Every time a new Doctor appeared so did a smile on my face.” – Nerdly “Expansive, charming and gorgeous. 9 out of 10.” – Newsarama
The Lost Dimension
Author: Graeme Donald Snooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Lost Chicago
Author: David Lowe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226494322
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American—and world-class—architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a great building boom—still the largest in the history of the nation—introduced the first modern skyscrapers to the Chicago skyline and began what would become a legacy of diverse, influential, and iconoclastic contributions to the city’s built environment. Though this trend continued well into the twentieth century, sour city finances and unnecessary acts of demolishment left many previous cultural attractions abandoned and then destroyed. Lost Chicago explores the architectural and cultural history of this great American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s crisp, lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field made Prairie Avenue and State Street the rivals of New York City’s Fifth Avenue; and when Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings of incomparable excellence. Here are the mansions and grand hotels, the office buildings that met technical perfection (including the first skyscraper), and the stores, trains, movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress. “Lost Chicago is more than just another coffee table gift, more than merely a history of the city’s architecture; it is a history of the whole city as a cultural creation.”—New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226494322
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American—and world-class—architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a great building boom—still the largest in the history of the nation—introduced the first modern skyscrapers to the Chicago skyline and began what would become a legacy of diverse, influential, and iconoclastic contributions to the city’s built environment. Though this trend continued well into the twentieth century, sour city finances and unnecessary acts of demolishment left many previous cultural attractions abandoned and then destroyed. Lost Chicago explores the architectural and cultural history of this great American city, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the twentieth century. David Garrard Lowe’s crisp, lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field made Prairie Avenue and State Street the rivals of New York City’s Fifth Avenue; and when Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings of incomparable excellence. Here are the mansions and grand hotels, the office buildings that met technical perfection (including the first skyscraper), and the stores, trains, movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress. “Lost Chicago is more than just another coffee table gift, more than merely a history of the city’s architecture; it is a history of the whole city as a cultural creation.”—New York Times Book Review
Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Book 1
Author: Nick Abadzis
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1785865900
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most epic Doctor Who event ever, as every incarnation of the Doctor – and friends and enemies old and new – unites to push back the threat of the Void: the empty space between universes that has inexplicably become sentient… and hungry! In this first of two volumes collecting 2017’s giant Doctor Who crossover event, witness the return of Jenny, the Doctor’s daughter, who has a terrifying message for the Twelfth Doctor, Bill, and Nardole: the Void is hungry, and it’s beginning to devour the universe we know and love! From there, the threat of the Void spirals out to affect all of the Doctor’s incarnations – from the Ninth, who re-encounters Silurian detective Madame Vastra, to the Tenth, who battles cybernetic foes on a space station orbiting a white hole, to the Eleventh, who journeys beyond the universe and into an impossible era of his civilization’s ancient past…! Plus: find out what Jenny has been doing since we last saw her on TV! It’s unmissable, beyond-epic entertainment, and essential reading for any Doctor Who fan! • Collects Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Alpha, The Ninth Doctor Special, The Tenth Doctor #3.9, The Eleventh Doctor #3.10 and Jenny, The Doctor’s Daughter Special #1 & #2. • 2017’s giant Doctor Who crossover event is collected in two amazing volumes! • Every Doctor to date is brought together to fight the terrifying threat of the Void, the nothingness in-between universes which has somehow become sentient… and hungry! • With the laws of time and space decimated and humanity itself turned against the Doctor and his friends, it’s up to each incarnation of the Doctor to find a solution to this interdimensional crisis! · Join the Twelfth Doctor, Bill, and Nardole, as the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny, smashes back into their lives with dire information about the oncoming threat (and discover what Jenny has been up to since we last saw her on TV!) · Witness the plight of the Ninth Doctor’s companions, Captain Jack Harkness and Tara Mishra, as faulty equipment sends them spinning into a White Hole! · The Ninth Doctor and Rose encounter Madame Vastra – and uncover a Silurian secret that should never have been shared! · The Tenth Doctor, Gabby, and Cindy face a cybernetic threat on a space station under assault from the forces of the Void! · And the Eleventh Doctor and Alice venture into the distant past, into a period of Gallifreyan history that should be impossible for them to witness, let alone play a part in! A thrilling, blockbuster celebration of the Doctor’s lives so far, this beyond
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1785865900
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most epic Doctor Who event ever, as every incarnation of the Doctor – and friends and enemies old and new – unites to push back the threat of the Void: the empty space between universes that has inexplicably become sentient… and hungry! In this first of two volumes collecting 2017’s giant Doctor Who crossover event, witness the return of Jenny, the Doctor’s daughter, who has a terrifying message for the Twelfth Doctor, Bill, and Nardole: the Void is hungry, and it’s beginning to devour the universe we know and love! From there, the threat of the Void spirals out to affect all of the Doctor’s incarnations – from the Ninth, who re-encounters Silurian detective Madame Vastra, to the Tenth, who battles cybernetic foes on a space station orbiting a white hole, to the Eleventh, who journeys beyond the universe and into an impossible era of his civilization’s ancient past…! Plus: find out what Jenny has been doing since we last saw her on TV! It’s unmissable, beyond-epic entertainment, and essential reading for any Doctor Who fan! • Collects Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Alpha, The Ninth Doctor Special, The Tenth Doctor #3.9, The Eleventh Doctor #3.10 and Jenny, The Doctor’s Daughter Special #1 & #2. • 2017’s giant Doctor Who crossover event is collected in two amazing volumes! • Every Doctor to date is brought together to fight the terrifying threat of the Void, the nothingness in-between universes which has somehow become sentient… and hungry! • With the laws of time and space decimated and humanity itself turned against the Doctor and his friends, it’s up to each incarnation of the Doctor to find a solution to this interdimensional crisis! · Join the Twelfth Doctor, Bill, and Nardole, as the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny, smashes back into their lives with dire information about the oncoming threat (and discover what Jenny has been up to since we last saw her on TV!) · Witness the plight of the Ninth Doctor’s companions, Captain Jack Harkness and Tara Mishra, as faulty equipment sends them spinning into a White Hole! · The Ninth Doctor and Rose encounter Madame Vastra – and uncover a Silurian secret that should never have been shared! · The Tenth Doctor, Gabby, and Cindy face a cybernetic threat on a space station under assault from the forces of the Void! · And the Eleventh Doctor and Alice venture into the distant past, into a period of Gallifreyan history that should be impossible for them to witness, let alone play a part in! A thrilling, blockbuster celebration of the Doctor’s lives so far, this beyond
The Book of the Moon
Author: Steven Forrest
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979067747
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking care of the Moon (the heart) in ourselves is the secret of happiness, but unravelling its messages requires that we learn its mysterious, non-linear, trans-logical language. "Being in touch with our feelings" is only part of it. To follow the Moon down into our hearts is a journey into another reality, the interior psychic world, where our souls collide with ghosts from our past. Intuition, the Mother, Family, Healing and being healed -- these are all lunar topics. The story unfolds against a shifting backdrop of epochal changes in our cultural relationship to what we were foolishly taught to call "the Feminine", forgetting that men have Moons too! This book takes a fresh look at the moon, including new insight into the moon's phases, the moon's declination and the "out of bounds" moon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979067747
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking care of the Moon (the heart) in ourselves is the secret of happiness, but unravelling its messages requires that we learn its mysterious, non-linear, trans-logical language. "Being in touch with our feelings" is only part of it. To follow the Moon down into our hearts is a journey into another reality, the interior psychic world, where our souls collide with ghosts from our past. Intuition, the Mother, Family, Healing and being healed -- these are all lunar topics. The story unfolds against a shifting backdrop of epochal changes in our cultural relationship to what we were foolishly taught to call "the Feminine", forgetting that men have Moons too! This book takes a fresh look at the moon, including new insight into the moon's phases, the moon's declination and the "out of bounds" moon.
Pure War, new edition
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1584350598
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the “accidents” that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the “accident”—both military and economic—has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, “local” accidents—like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s—escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. “Globalization,” Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the École Speciale d'Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylvère Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1584350598
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the “accidents” that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the “accident”—both military and economic—has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, “local” accidents—like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s—escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. “Globalization,” Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the École Speciale d'Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylvère Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.
Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Volume 1 (of 2)
Author: George Mann
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785865935
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An all-new adventure with all the Doctors! When the universe is threatened, when the laws of Time, Space and Reality break down, different incarnations of the Doctor can meet. It should never happen. But this is one of those days. Witness an unprecedented crossover between all thirteen Doctors to date, in an epic struggle for the future of the universe – guest-starring Jenny, the Doctor’s Daughter! The Doctors must battle an all-consuming white hole – and uncover the deadly secret of the void between universes. Writers George Mann (Dark Souls), Cavan Scott (Tekken), and Nick Abadzis (Pigs Might Fly), and artists including Rachael Stott (Star Trek), Adriana Melo (Star Wars), Mariano Laclaustra, Leandro Casco, and many more chart a course for the impossible! Collects the first half of the Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension event: Alpha #1, Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #2.1, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #3.10 and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #3.10. “Expansive, charming and gorgeous!” – Newsarama “A damn fine crossover event!” – The Fandom Post “The story is fantastic and the artwork stunning. 5/5” – Kaboom
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785865935
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An all-new adventure with all the Doctors! When the universe is threatened, when the laws of Time, Space and Reality break down, different incarnations of the Doctor can meet. It should never happen. But this is one of those days. Witness an unprecedented crossover between all thirteen Doctors to date, in an epic struggle for the future of the universe – guest-starring Jenny, the Doctor’s Daughter! The Doctors must battle an all-consuming white hole – and uncover the deadly secret of the void between universes. Writers George Mann (Dark Souls), Cavan Scott (Tekken), and Nick Abadzis (Pigs Might Fly), and artists including Rachael Stott (Star Trek), Adriana Melo (Star Wars), Mariano Laclaustra, Leandro Casco, and many more chart a course for the impossible! Collects the first half of the Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension event: Alpha #1, Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #2.1, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #3.10 and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #3.10. “Expansive, charming and gorgeous!” – Newsarama “A damn fine crossover event!” – The Fandom Post “The story is fantastic and the artwork stunning. 5/5” – Kaboom
Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism
Author: Louise Nelstrop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317137353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
’Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ’science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317137353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
’Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ’science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.