Enthralled by mystery. Eckhart, Heidegger and the poet Mujica in an interdisciplinary dialogue
Silvia Campana
The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience 2021 DOI: 10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9997-2021-5 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that Hugo Mujica's poetry embodies an inseparable pairing of mysticism and poetry, revealing a human desire to surpass the immediate and superficial. The authors contend that Mujica's poetic saying opens toward the abyss, desert, and limits of language and silence, and that it reflects the influence of Heidegger's philosophy and Meister Eckhart's notion of going to God without god. |
Abstract
Mysticism and poetry make up an inseparable pairing and, in these times of absence, they reveal the deep desire of man to go beyond the immediate, the existential, the superficial. The Argentine poet Hugo Mujica opens, from his poetic saying, a door towards the abyss and the desert, towards the limit of language and silence. We can glimpse in his poetry Heidegger’s legacy and, together with the philosopher, the Master Eckhart is also dragged from his going to God without god. From the interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, theology and poetry, we will approach to decipher this influence that transforms the saying of the poet-philosopher and updates his word in the desert and plunges us into the mystery of the unspeakable.