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Title
The Discovery of Anxiousness : Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal
Subject
Cultural Studies
Description
Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term »saudade« (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.
Creator
Joana Serrado
Source
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839465325/html
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Date
2024
Contributor
Prasetyo Adi Nugroho
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839465325
ISBN: 9783839465325
ISBN: 9783839465325