Mystical Literature: Călin Mihăilescu

Mystical Literature
CL 9010b

Jan. – Apr. 2009

Mondays 1:30-4:30 (location TBA)

Instructor: Călin Mihăilescu (cmihails@uwo.ca; tel. 661-2111 ext. 85862)

Course Description

In its various embodiments (religious, literary, philosophical…), what can be termed as "mystical" has pushed the individual to the limits of the imaginable, and the imaginable beyond the limits of the world, into the transcendent or beyond it. This course endeavors to tackle the two main Western mystical traditions: the apophatic (or the negative), whose main representatives regarded the relationship and potential union between the individual and the universal outside of the paradigms of representation (the authors and theorists to be studied here are Plato, Plotinus, (Pseudo-) Dionysius the Areopagite, Meister Eckhart, Gregory Palamas, St John of the Cross, Angelus Silesius, Richard Crashaw, Pascal, Balzac, Kafka, Trakl, Simone Weil, Nabokov, Celan, Deleuze, Jean-Luc Marion, Kevin Hart); and the kataphatic (or the positive), whose main proponents considered the relationship between the individual and the universal under the sign of vision and representation (The Bible, The Koran, The Zohar, St. Francis, Dante, Loyola, St Teresa of Avila, Mme Guyon, Goethe, Rilke, Pound).

Syllabus

Jan. 5 1:30-3:00 Equistasis (opening public lecture)
3:15-4:30 Introductory remarks

Jan. 12 Beyond: escapism and the trap of the transcendental
Plato, Plotinus; The New Testament; St Augustine

Jan. 19 Immanence and experience (a typology)
Loyola, Fray Luis de León, St Teresa de Avila, Mme Guyon

Jan. 26 Trusted visions
The Old and New Testaments, The Koran, The Zohar

Feb. 2 Disimagination and apophasis (1)
Dionysius the Areopagite, Meister Eckhart, Gregory Palamas

Feb. 9 Disimagination and apophasis (2)
St John of the Cross, Angelus Silesius, Pascal, Trakl

Feb 16-20 Reading week (no class)

Feb. 23                       Icons, idols and clowns
                                    Rublev, las Verónicas, Malevich, Klee, Picasso;
                                    Gregory of Nyssa, Balzac, Kafka, Nabokov, Marion

Mar. 2 Cradled by images (kataphatic aesthetics 1)
Dante, St Teresa, Crashaw, Traherne, Vaughan

Mar. 9 Cradled by images (kataphatic aesthetics 2)
Goethe, Rilke, Esenin, Pound

Mar. 16 Judeo-Christian judo
Walter Benjamin, Simone Weil, Paul Celan

Mar. 23 Jumpers in the mist (on philosophy & science)
Hegel, Marx, Einstein, Heisenberg, Gödel

Mar. 30 Tout commence en mystique et finit en politique
Medieval and early modern political thought, Louis XIV, Kant, Carl Schmitt; old and new totalitarianisms

Apr. 1 Myst is coming your way (concluding remarks)

Course Requirements

A. Class participation (20%)
B. Class presentation (20%)
C. Final paper (60%): 20+ pages, due on April 30, 2009

Bibliography

I. Primary Literature

Primary Sources

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