Raison et mystique dans le néoplatonisme (novità editoriale)

This volume is an exegetical contribution to the study of Greek Neoplatonism; it is built around one of the paradoxes that run throughout this tradition of thinking, from Plotinus to Damascius. Focused on the Plotinian experience of mystical union, the author unties the knot of the ambiguous relationship between the rational and the mystical approach. The challenge that Neoplatonism places before us is that of showing how similar, in fact, these two paths are. The central issue of the present volume is: how are we to understand and express discursively something which goes beyond any discourse and reason? Put differently: is mystical ecstasy compatible with reason? The volume revisits a whole tradition of critical lucidity and religious aspiration, brought to its final term: there where silence "speaks" better for what reason seems unable to grasp and express. However, it can still express it! How? This is what the author argues for: in a very s pecial way, by means of what we can call mystical reason.