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Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological

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Patrick Cooper offers a sustained reflection on the Augustinian adage ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora. Desmond had signaled early on that this is a central metaphor for his metaxology, and Cooper traces its importance in navigating the relationship between metaphysics and mysticism, as well as its variation in thinkers such as Pierre Scheuer, Joseph Maréchal and Jan van Ruusbroec.

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  1. Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, WA, USA

    Patrick Ryan Cooper

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  1. KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

    Dennis Vanden Auweele

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Cooper, P.R. (2018). Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological. In: Vanden Auweele, D. (eds) William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98992-1_8

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