"El deseo de un exceso". La antropología como anhelo de un plus-ultra: Hadewijch de Amberes y Adolph Gesché en diálogo

Abstract

This article proposes a dialogue between Adolphe Gesche and Hadewijch of Antwerp through an anthropological mediation. Both conceive human beings as consisting of an excess, a reality that comes from elsewhere. From this mystical, theological and anthropological harmony, the author brings both authors into play in order to emphasize the closeness of thought, feeling and experience, as a bridge, stretched over the seven centuries that separates them. The extraordinary and beautiful poems and writings of Hadewijch one hand, and the solid and attractive Gesche’s theology, on the other, are intertwined with a common goal: ensuring the ineffable dignity of a thinking, desiring and longing human being that suggests an “other” who inhabits him, which is beyond any factual reality and which is more sensed than defined, more desired than possessed.