{"title":"Simon Critchley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"on-mysticism","title":"On Mysticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMysticism has been called 'experience at its most intense form', and here philosopher Simon Critchley asks: wouldn't you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn't you like to be lifted up and out of yourself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMysticism is not a question of religious belief but of felt experience and daily practice. It is a way of freeing yourself of your standard habits, fancies and imagining so as to see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewhat is there\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and stand with what is there \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eecstatically\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It is the achievement of a fluid openness between thought and existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about Julian of Norwich and medieval mystics that also ranges through the work of Anne Carson, Annie Dillard and T.S. Eliot. It looks at Nick Cave and German krautrock and shows how music can be secular worship. It opens the door to mysticism not as something unworldly and unimaginable, but as a way of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52033828127051,"sku":"R3684-0099","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/41wZjqyGnBL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1749550536"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/simon-critchley.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}