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This book represents a study of Evelyn Underhill’s premier work on mysticism, using Hegel’s dialectics and Kant’s theory of the sublime as interpretive tools. It especially focuses on two prominent features of Underhill’s text: the description of the mystical life as one permeated by an intense love between the mystic and infinite reality, and the detailed delineation of stages of mystical development. Given these two features, the text lends itself to a construction of a valuable discourse predicated on dialecticism, sublimity, and mysticism. The book also articulates a number of insights into the content and nature of the writings of Christian mystics.

Philosophy (General). --- Religion (General). --- Philosophy. --- Religious Studies. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Dialectic. --- Religion. --- Philosophy, general. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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The book starts off by giving a quick overview of the main phases within the history of philosophy in the Western tradition. It then homes in on the “modern” phase and proceeds to select key thinkers that represent that slice from the rich intellectual heritage of the West. The main chapters have these thinkers’ names as heading. The work is meant to be expository and discursive, suited to introduce the neophyte in philosophy to some of the big questions asked by philosophers and their methods of addressing these questions as well as their unique proposed answers. The coverage is selective rather than extensive; and hence, only a small portion of the philosopher’s corpus of writings will be hand-picked and considered. Peter Chong-Beng Gan’s interest in philosophy encompasses several fields, but his favourite is philosophy of religion. Apart from research and writing, teaching a philosophy class with enthusiastic students ever eager to engage their teacher and challenge him and their classmates with difficult and mind-blowing questions never fails to affirm him in why he’s doing what he’s doing.

Philosophy, Modern. --- Political science --- Early Modern Philosophy. --- Political Philosophy. --- Philosophy.