Simon Critchley & James Butler: On Mysticism

Simon Critchley & James Butler: On Mysticism

London Review Bookshop Podcast · 2025-07-02

From Jesus Christ to Krautrock via Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot, Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism (Profile) brilliantly displays the author’s playful, eclectic erudition in an evocation of the phenomenon he defines, after Evelyn Underhill, as ‘experience in its most intense form.’

Critchley was in conversation about mysticism East and West with the LRB’s James Butler.

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