The Discovery of Anxiousness : Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal

Serrado, Joana

doi:10.14361/9783839465325

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Serrado, Joana

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Abstract

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.

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Keywords

Philosophy; Gender; Catholicism; Teresa of Avila; Portugal; Mysticism; Religion; Cultural History; Religious Studies; History of Religion; Gender Studies; Romance Studies; Cultural Studies; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups