anitzo I offer you my cherubic wanderer as a honored one. Pausing and wandering through the intertextual world of mysticism
The dissertation project "anitzo trage ich dir meinen Cherubinischen Wandersmann als einen gefehrten an. Pausing and wandering through the intertextual world of mysticism" pursues various goals, which are exemplified by the examination of the Cherubinischer Wandersmann. The epigrams in these books are in the tradition of Christian - not exclusively Catholic - mysticism and process it in a new and, for mysticism, unusually short linguistic form. The project is part of a series of research projects that have set themselves the task of demonstrating the discursive capacity of 'mystical' theology. 'Mysticism' moves on the border between Gʼtt and the world and therefore requires a relationship to both sides - and not exclusively to Gʼtt, in the form of aspired unio-experiences. Mysticism can therefore make us sensitive to unjust structures in the world and lead to aesthetic and practical forms of criticism of these structures as well as to desired transformations. The project also aims to illustrate the potential of religious poetry for theological language and for today's world, in which aesthetics is becoming increasingly important in relation to the experience of Gʼttes. The two levels of the project - religious-historical and socio-theological - are linked by the examination of changing temporal structures, which in turn entail changes in society and theology. Finally, the work is based on resonance theory in the sense of the work of sociologist Hartmut Rosa. The aim of the project is to show that resonance theory, alongside critical theory and Romanticism, is also part of the tradition of Christian theology.
Supervisors of the project:
- Prof. Dr. MirjaKutzer
- Prof. Dr. Markus Knapp
- Prof. Dr. JuliaEnxing
