Argues that the discourse of Jacob Boehme represents the return of Gnostic thought in modernity after a thousand year hiatus.
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme’s thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme’s visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the 'Gnostic return’ claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O’Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme’s visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention.
Spis treści
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Visionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine
1. Narrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine
1.1. Boehme’s Six-Stage Narrative
1.2. Narrative Teleology: Narrative Codes
1.3. Trinitarian Configuration of Ontotheological Narrative
2. Discursive Contexts of Boehme’s Visionary Narrative
2.1. Alchemy as Discursive Context and its Sublation
2.2. Narrative Deconstitution of Negative Theology
Part II: Metalepsis Unbounding
3. Nondistinctive Swerves: Boehme’s Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions
4. Distinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis
4.1. Distinctive Individual Hermenutic and Theological Swerves
4.2. Narrative Swerve: Metalepsis
5. Boehme’s Visionary Discourse and the Limits of Metalepsis
Part III: Valentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses
6. Boehme’s Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar
6.1. Toward Geneology
7. Apocalyptic in Boehme’s Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
7.1. Apocalyptic Inscription and Distention
8. Neoplatonism in Boehme’s Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
8.1. Valentinian Enlisitng of Neoplatonic Narratives
9. Kabbalah in Boehme’s Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
9.1. Valentinian Enlisting of the Kabbalah
Conclusion: Genealogical Preface
Notes
Index
O autorze
Cyril O’Regan is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Heterodox Hegel and Gnostic Return in Modernity, both published by SUNY Press.
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