Angelus Silesius

1969 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 698
Author(s):  
A. Menhennet ◽  
Jeffrey L. Sammons
Keyword(s):  
Angelus Silesius

Transcender Deus

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (34) ◽  
pp. 439-457
Author(s):  
Paulo Borges ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
The Core ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
Angelus Silesius

Our aim is to reflect upon the theme of “Transcending God”, as the core of the spiritual and mystical quest and journey, in Meister Eckhart and Angelus Silesius. We comment positions like “So therefore we pray to God that we may be free of “God”” (Eckhart) and “I must go even beyond God, to a desert” (Silesius), situating them in the context of neoplatonic experience and tradition. Finally, we wonder if we couldn’t find here a previous and more radical “death of God”, where religion is simultaneously accomplished and overpassed by mystical spirituality. This could be the other side of the “death of God” proclaimed by Nietzsche.

scholarly journals Angelus Silesius selon Kołakowski

2014 ◽  
Vol 166 (166) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Jacques Le Brun
Keyword(s):  
Angelus Silesius

Angelus Silesius

Le Néant ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Roger Munier
Keyword(s):  
Angelus Silesius

scholarly journals Not Yet: The Faith of Revolution

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-135
Author(s):  
Cory Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
Negative Theology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Atheism ◽  
Angelus Silesius

This essay seeks to contribute to revolutionary understandings of time through an examination of Derrida's 1993 book Sauf le nom, and the poet and mystic Angelus Silesius, whom Derrida reads in this book. The essay counters Martin Hägglund's claim that deconstruction and negative theology are fundamentally opposed to one another by tracing the work of impoverishment in Silesius's poetry. The essay then employs this understanding of impoverishment to deconstruct the concept of desire in Hägglund's 2008 book Radical Atheism, proposing as an alternative to this concept a ‘faith of revolution’ that is tied to a certain understanding of the future.

scholarly journals Without Why: Useless Plants in Daoism and Christianity

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Sam Mickey
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Angelus Silesius ◽  
Religious Considerations

This article focuses on three examples of religious considerations of plants, with specific attention to the uselessness of plants. Drawing on Christian and Daoist sources, the examples include the following: (1) the lilies of the field described by Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke; (2) the useless tree of Zhuangzi; and (3) Martin Heidegger’s reading of a mystic poet influenced by Meister Eckhart, Angelus Silesius, for whom a rose blooms “without why,” which resonates with Heidegger’s deconstruction (Destruktion) of the history of metaphysics and his interpretation of uselessness in Zhuangzi. Each of those examples involves non-anthropocentric engagements with the uselessness of plants, which is not to say that they are completely free of the anthropocentrically scaled perspectives that assimilate uselessness into the logistics of agricultural societies. In contrast to ethical theories of the intrinsic value (biocentrism) or systemic value (ecocentrism) of plants, these Christian and Daoist perspectives converge with ecological deconstruction in suggesting that ethical encounters with plants emerge through attention to their uselessness. A viable response to planetary emergency can emerge with the radical passivity of effortless action, which is a careless care that finds solidarity with the carefree ways of plants.

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