Spacious joy an essay in phenomenology and literature
J.L. Chretien is a French public intellectual, philosopher and poet, widely published and revered in his home country and in academic circles worldwide. This translation makes his work available to an English-language audience for the first time and a crucial contribution to our understanding of the...
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London ; Lanham, Maryland:
Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Spaciousness, joy, and the legacy of the word "dilation"
- St. Augustine and the wide offshore of desire
- St. Gregory the Great: amplitude within a narrow confinement
- The dilated runners of Psalm 118, from Henri Michaux to St. Teresa
- Mystical dilations
- Bossuet on the open roads
- Amiel and the pathology of dilation
- Return to Eden with Thomas Traherne
- Whitman, voyager without limits
- Paul Claudel's cosmic respiration.