A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch

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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction
Part One: The Point of Departure
	2. The Point of Departure: Readdressing the Mystical in Virginia Woolf
		(i) Readdressing the Mystical in Woolf: A Literary Context
		(ii) Readdressing the Mystical in Woolf: A Philosophical and Aesthetic Context
	3. The Point of Departure : Readdressing the Mystical in Iris Murdoch
		(i) Mysticism in Murdoch: A Philosophical and Aesthetic Context
Part Two: A Mystical Philosophy
	4. Exploring the Cataphatic Dimension of Virginia Woolf ’s Work: Virginia Woolf and Plotinus
		(i) On Unity
		(ii) The Mystical Self
		(iii) Vision and Light
		(iv) Love and Ecstasy: The Ethics of Vision
	5. Exploring the Cataphatic Dimension of Iris Murdoch’s Work
		(i) On Unity
		(ii) The Restored (Mystical) Self
		(iii) Vision and Light: the Process of Becoming
		(iv) The Ethics of Vision: Love and the Everyday
	6. Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Virginia Woolf ’s Work: Virginia Woolf, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Aesthetics of Excess
		(i) Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Woolf ’s Literature
		(ii) The Mystical Shape of a Theological Aesthetic
	7. Exploring the Apophatic Dimension of Iris Murdoch’s Work: An Iconoclastic Pilgrimage
Part Three: Contributions to a Contemporary Theological Aesthetic
	8. Conclusion: Mystical Contributions to a Theological Aesthetic: Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch
	Concluding Summary
Notes
Bibliography
Index