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Both a trajectory of mysticism and a mystification of trajectories. A path towards the divine but also a questioning of any discursive representation, naming and classification of the transcendental. A trajectory of mysticism that moves towards God. But also an eclipsing of the path that would lead to God.
What am I to do, what shall I do, what should I do, in my situation, how proceed? By aporia pure and simple? Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered?
Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
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Leonard, P. (2000). Divine Horizons: Levinas, Derrida, Transcendence. In: Leonard, P. (eds) Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature. Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596597_10
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