Transcendent experiences
Subtitle: phenomenology and critique
By: Louis Roy.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Experience (Religion); Infinite.; Transcendence (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1: A Phenomenological Approach; title: 1 Constituents and Classification 3; title: Definition and Elements 4; title: Types 9; title: Other Typologies 10; title: 2 Narratives 14; title: An Instance of Aesthetic Experience 14; title: An Instance of Ontological Experience 16; title: An Instance of Ethical Experience 20; title: An Instance of Interpersonal Experience 22; title: Part 2: Historic Contributions; title: 3 Kant and the Sublime 27; title: Phenomenology 28; title: The Mediation of the Mind 31; title: The Unfolding of the Mathematical Sublime 37; title: The Concept of Infinite 40; title: Summary 45; title: 4 Schleiermacher and Absolute Dependence 47; title: In the Wake of Kant 47; title: A Tripartite Division of Human Life 49; title: Feeling 51; title: Mediatedness 54; title: Absolute Dependence 57; title: The Awareness of the 'Whence' 59; title: Experience and Objectification 64; title: Summary 67; title: 5 Hegel and the Dialectic of the Infinite 69; title: The Rejection of Kant's Infinite 70; title: Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Kant 77; title: The Rejection of Schleiermacher's Absolute Dependence 82; title: Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Schleiermacher 86; title: Summary 87; title: 6 William James and Religious Experience 89; title: The Four Marks of Mysticism 90; title: Feeling and Thought 92; title: The Pragmatic Method 95; title: The Divine as an Undubitable Object 99; title: The Will to Believe 101; title: Summary 103; title: 7 Rudolf Otto and the Numinous 105; title: Feeling or Emotion? 106; title: Uniqueness and Ineffability 109; title: The Non-rational and the Rational 111; title: The Holy as an A Priori Category 116; title: A Faculty That Perceives the Numinous 120; title: Summary 123; title: 8 Mar6chal, Rahner, and Lonergan 125; title: From the Transcendental to the Transcendent 125; title: Fascination with the Mystery 128; title: Examples 130; title: Four Levels of Consciousness 132; title: Feeling 135; title: Immediacy and Mediation 137; title: Religious Experience and Conversion 139; title: Summary 140; title: Part 3: The Validity of Transcendent Experiences; title: 9 Basic Concepts I 145; title: Experience 146; title: Intentionality and Transcendence 151; title: Indefiniteness and the Infinite 156; title: Summary 160; title: 10 Basic Concepts II 161; title: Feeling and Discovery 161; title: Interpretation 166; title: Directness and Mediation 175; title: Summary 181; title: Conclusion 184; title: Notes 189; title: Selected Bibliography 211; title: Index 217.