1st Edition
The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought Being, Nothingness, Love
Introduction 1 Kierkegaard: Annihilation in Love 2 Buber and Heidegger: In Search of Ur-Experience 3 Blondel to Bergson: Mysticism and French Philosophy 4 Beauvoir and Sartre: Love and Value in the Phenomenal World 5 Marcel and Camus: Mystery and the Affirmation of the Absurd 6 Weil and Bataille: Mystic Exemplars? 7 Berdyaev: A Mysticism of Freedom 8 Tillich: From Being to Love Conclusion
Biography
George Pattison is 1640 Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, UK, and formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He has published widely in the areas of modern theology and philosophy of religion, including Anxious Angels: A Retrospective View of Religious Existentialism (1999), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger (2000), Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life (2012), and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought (2013).
Kate Kirkpatrick is Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy, and Culture at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of Sartre and Theology (2017), Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness (2017), and Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (2019). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
