introduCtion: waVering ortHodoXY 'I loathe the word mystic -it might mean anything', the modernist artist and poet David Jones, writing to a friend in 1927, opined. 1 He was clarifying his religious views and distancing his own work from the phenomenon.Coming from a practising Roman Catholic, Jones's statement might well appear odd, given that he had encountered the lives or writings of revered...
This chapter contends that the language of religious experience is in many ways indistinguishable from the language of epiphanies so central to literary modernism. Against critics who regard the Romantic epiphany as a secular form of revelation, it posits that modernist epiphanies cannot be fully understood in secular terms; they remind us, instead, of modernism’s religious and Romantic...
complements to the current philosophical account arising from earlier work on the relation between mind and matter in the work of Jacques Lacan, from a transmedial perspective with examples from novels and graphic narrative.In the course of our argument, the possibilities and limitations of the extended-mind approach in informing narrative theory are explored and, in turn, the scope of the...
The Scottish Enlightenment was a stunning intellectual performance that set the intellectual agenda for many people inside and outside Scotland for many decades thereafter. George Davie argues that Sir William Hamilton's pupil and friend James Frederick Ferrier was in substantial measure responsible for the blackout of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 1850s. Ferrier's greatest work is perhaps...
Third argument for panpsychism: It rightly takes as our clue to the nature of noumenal reality in general the one initial example we have of it was published in The Vindication of Absolute Idealism on page 105.