German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History

German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History

Andrew Weeks

The union of worlds : biblical and Augustinian sources of German mysticism -- The visible and the invisible : Hildegard of Bingen and female visionary mysticism -- The outer and the inner : the reflective mysticism of Eckhart, Seuse, and Tauler -- The finite and the infinite : the humanistic mysticism of Nicholas of Cusa -- Nature and scripture : mysticism between Renaissance and Reformation -- Letter and spirit : mysticism as dissent in the German Reformation -- The part and the whole : Jacob Boehme and the Baroque synthesis -- Diversity and unity : mysticism between Pietism and Enlightenment -- Nature and imagination : romantic mysticism from Novalis to Schopenhauer.

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