| Date: | Tue, Oct 15, 2024 |
| Time: | 7:00-10:00 PM EDT |
| Location: | Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 |
| Find out more: | RSVP via Eventbrite |
Pioneer Works invites you to a discussion with philosophy scholars Simon Critchley and Cornel West for the launch of Critchley's latest book, Mysticism, out this October from New York Review Books.
Mysticism has been called “experience in its most intense form,” and Critchley's book poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn’t you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness?
Mysticism is about trying to get outside oneself, to lose oneself, while knowing that the self is not something that can ever be fully lost. It is also a book about Julian of Norwich, Anne Carson, Annie Dillard, T.S. Eliot, and Nick Cave. It is a book of learning and puzzlement, that also shows how listening to music can be secular worship. It opens the door to mysticism not as something unworldly and unimaginable, but as a way of life.
This event is free to attend. Copies of Mysticism will be for sale and available for signing.