Simon Critchley and Dr. Cornel West on God and Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O’Connor once said, “I do not know you, God, because I am in the way. Please help me push myself aside.” Philosophers Simon Critchley and Dr. Cornel West discuss the tradition of undoing the creature within us, along with the other concepts underpinning Critchley’s latest book, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy.

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This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.
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