I’m happy to report that W. Ezekiel Goggin & I have signed a contract to co-write a book on the modern reception of medieval mysticism for Routledge’s Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism series.
The original title of the proposal was Exterminating Angels (based on a saying of the Romantic writer Jean Paul Richter), but we eventually arrived at something much more straightforward: Mysticism & Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism. While I don’t want to spoil too much here, the book should include chapters aiming to bring together the voices of Angela of Foligno, Meister Eckhart, Johann Tauler, Catherine of Siena, Kant, Fichte, Novalis, Hegel, Marx, & Bataille.
It should be a wild (but completely academically responsible) ride!