Awards

• Winner of Winner of the 2009 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.

Overview

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions-St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Ruzbihan Baqli-Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry-as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism-and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.

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"""A major contribution to the philosophy of religion in the phenomenological mode ... brilliant, original, and illuminating."" Merold Westphal, Fordham University"

A major contribution to the philosophy of religion in the phenomenological mode ... brilliant, original, and illuminating. Merold Westphal, Fordham University

Author Information

Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is author of Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl and editor-in-chief of Continental Philosophy Review.

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