Figures of Possibility Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

"This is a truly original work, grounded in wonderfully wide and deep learning. It is also a profound reflection on the ethical life and the role figuration might play within it. There is nothing like it that I know of, nor could anyone without Largier's range of learning and depth of thought have written it."-Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays "Figures of Possibility is a singular achievement, both as a work of breathtaking scholarship and as a new and exciting theory of aesthetic experience. The writing is exceptionally clear; the prose is passionate, beautiful, and compelling. Largier turns rigorous scholarship on medieval and early modern mysticism into a new approach to reading literature and aesthetic experience."-Eric Santner, author of Untying Things Together "Figures of Possibility is an ambitious, original, and thought-provoking book."-Lieke Smits, Material Religion "Largier's study will prove a valuable interpretative resource to scholars of medieval mysticism and European modernism alike for many years to come."-Paul Bishop, The German Quarterly