Zer0 Summer--Bibliography

This is currently an older bibliography from a research project. More extensive bibliographies are available under the header of each featured author. This page focuses on general and theoretical resources. If you have a suggestion for a book to add, or would like to add an annotation for a book, use the form on the contact page.

Brockington, A. Allen. Mysticism and Poetry on a Basis of Experience. Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1970.

Cousins, Ewart. "Bonadventure’s Mysticism of Language." Katz 236-257.

Derrida, Jacques. "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials." Languages of the Unsayable. Ed. Wolfgang Iser. New York: Columbia UP, 1989. 3-70.

Ernst, Carl W. "Mystical Language and the Teaching Context in the Early Lexicons of Sufism." Mysticism and Language. Ed. Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 181-201.

Forman, Robert K.C., ed. Introduction. The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

Gimello, Robert M. "Mysticism in Its Contexts." Mysticism and Religious Traditions. Ed. Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford UP, 1983. 61-88.

Harding, D.W. Experience into Words: Essays on Poetry. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963.

Hatab, Lawrence J. "Mysticism and Language." International Philosophical Quarterly. 22 (March 1982). 51-64.

Huxley, Aldous. The Perennial Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982.

Jantzen, Grace M. "The Language of Ineffability," "The Ineffability of God," "The Tools of Inarticulacy," and "Philosophical Issues." Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Katz, Steven T. "The ‘Conservative’ Character of Mystical Experience." Mysticism and Religious Traditions. Ed. Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford UP, 1983. 3-60.

—. "Language, Epistemology, and Mysticism." Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis. Ed. Steven T. Katz. London: Sheldon Press, [1978]. 22-74.

—. "Mystical Speech and Mystical Meaning." Mysticism and Language. Ed. Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 3-41.

Maritain, Jacques, and Raissa Maritain. The Situation of Poetry: Four Essays on the Relations between Poetry, Mysticism, Magic, and Knowledge. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955.

Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. Trans. John W. Harvey. New York: Oxford UP, 1970.

Santayana, George. Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. Eds. William G. Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp Jr.. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.

Shattuck, Roger. "Appendix I: Six Categories of Forbidden Knowledge." Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography. New York: St. Martin’s, 1996. 327-337.

Smith, John E. "William James’ Account of Mysticism: A Critical Appraisal." Mysticism and Religious Traditions. Ed. Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford UP, 1983. 247-279.

Stace, W. T. Mysticism and Philosophy. London: Macmillan, 1960.

Streng, Frederick J. "Language and Mystical Awareness." Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis. Ed. Steven T. Katz. London: Sheldon Press, [1978]. 141-169.

Taylor, Charles. "Nature as a Source," "Visions of the Post-Romantic Age," and "Epiphanies of Modernism" in Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.

Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1969.