Subjects Beyond Themselves: Ecstasy and Vision in Western Thought
EDITORIALE / Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Simone Guidi / In its literal meaning, the term ἔκστασις (ekstasis) indicates a displacement, ‘being...
EDITORIALE / Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Simone Guidi / In its literal meaning, the term ἔκστασις (ekstasis) indicates a displacement, ‘being...
SECTION I: Ecstasy and Vision of God: from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
ARTICOLI / 1 / Ernesto Mainoldi / Ecstasy and deification in Dionysian mystical and hierarchical theology The theme of ecstasy...
ARTICOLI / 2 / Giovanni Catapano / Ecstasy and vision in Augustine This article studies the relationship between the concepts...
CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alessandro Valsecchi / Visions of God, visions by God. Theophany and deification in John Scottus Eriugena...
ARTICOLI / 3 / Francesco Alfonso Leccese / Vision and enstasis in Sufism Sufism is the esoteric current of Islam...
ARTICOLI / 4 / Anna Rodolfi / Ecstasy of God and human rapture in the theology of Albert the Great...
ARTICOLI / 5 / Alessandra Beccarisi / God and Nature. Ecstasy as inner vision in the thought of Meister Eckhart...
ARTICOLI / 7 / Christian Trottmann / Mystical union and beatitude in Ruusbroec’s De calculo Do the last chapters of...
SECTION II: The Middle Ages beyond the Middle Ages
ARTICOLI / 8 / Bernard McGinn / Ecstasy (literally, ‘standing outside’), that is, the sense of being outside or beyond the ordinary modes of consciousness, seems to be a universal trait of human existence. Among the many forms of ecstasy...
ARTICOLI / 9 / Stéphane Toussaint / In the cat’s eye. The oculus catti between Albert the Great and Marsilio Ficino The article examines the origins of the image of the cat’s eye in Medieval theologians, such as Albertus Magnus,...
CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Valentin Brakeman / The freedom of the will in the beatific vision. Suárez’s critique of Ockham The beatific vision is the clear and supernatural contemplation of God’s essence. Necessarily, therefore, it comes with infinite enjoyment (fruitio)....
INTERVISTE/ 1 / a cura di Maria Vittoria Comacchi / Histories and models of ideas and visions. Interview with Emanuela Scribano In this interview, Emanuela Scribano discusses her book Angeli e beati. Modelli di conoscenza da Tommaso a Spinoza (2006),...
SECTION III: Ecstasy, Vision, and Mysticism in the Early Modern Period
ARTICOLI / 10 / Peter Tyler / The ecstasies and visions of the Iberian 16th Century siglo de oro are well known and described. This article analyses St John of the Cross’s forensic approach to these phenomena and how his...
ARTICOLI / 11 / Clement Duyck / The Disappearance of Mystical Ecstasy (from late 16th to late 17th century) This paper aims at shining a light on some of the theoretical processes that led mystical ecstasy to disappear between the...
CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Thomas Santa Maria / This paper examines paintings of «saints in ecstasy» which were commissioned, executed, and displayed in Rome between ca. 1590 and 1620. I read these paintings against treatises on sacred art as well...
SECTION IV: Contemporary Uses of Ecstasy
ARTICOLI / 12 / Guido Cusinato / Ecstasy and “Hunger for Being”. Schelling’s Response to Hegel’s “Shot from a Gun” In this paper, I argue that the concept of ecstasy (Ekstase), which Schelling elaborates on starting from the Erlanger Vorträge,...
CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Tommaso Mauri / Ecstatic Knowledge in Schelling’s Erlangen Lectures The aim of this essay is to analyze the concept of ecstasy in F. W. J. Schelling’s Erlangen Lectures. In particular, I intend to show how it...
CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Antonio Maccioni / Ecstasy as “Dionysian dissolution of the constraints of the visible”. Artistic Creation in Pavel A. Florensky In Russia, the early years of the 20th century are marked by rather complex cultural ferments. The...
ARTICOLI / 13 / Anthony Feneuil / The ecstasy and its echo. Two aspects of Bergson’s theory of mysticism This article is devoted to displaying two meanings of the notion of «extasis» in Bergson’s Two Sources of Morality and Religion. In...
CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Leonardo Capanni / Ecstasy in Psychology in the Late Nineteenth Century. Les tendances by James H. Leuba This paper aims to situate the topic of ecstasy within the medical and psycho-philosophical discussions of the last years...
CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Ludovica Boi / Ecstasy as arché. The role of ecstatic knowledge in Giorgio Colli’s metaphysics In this essay I reconstruct the conception of ecstatic knowledge developed by Giorgio Colli in the mature phase of his thought,...
CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Valentina Surace / Ecstatic Bodies. Judith Butler as an interpreter of Hegel’s ausser sich Butler proposes a reinterpretation of the Phenomenology of Spirit, to show that the Hegelian subject is not static and self-sufficient, but ecstatic...
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