The linguistic subject and the conscious subject in mysticism studies
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses June 1, 1996 Michael C. McLaughlin
The current discussion in philosophy of mysticism is heading down two divergent lines. Contextualist studies (notably Steven Katz) employ a linguistic model of the epistemic subject. Critics of contextualism (notably Robert Forman) have offered what this study calls a cognitionalist approach which draws attention to the performance of the conscious subject. The two approaches are combined by...