The Discovery of Anxiousness: Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal

Serrado, Joana

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%T The Discovery of Anxiousness: Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal
%A Serrado, Joana
%P 274
%V 2
%D 2023
%I transcript Verlag
%K Teresa of Avila; Romance Studies; Cultural Studies
%@ 2749-8069
%@ 978-3-8394-6532-5
%~ transcript Verlag
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-90997-9
%U https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839465325.pdf
%X Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term "saudade" (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.
%C DEU
%C Bielefeld
%G en
%9 Monographie
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info