by the superhumanities, I mean something that can take on much more social, historical, and, frankly, ethically edgy forms, something much closer to Corbin’s mentor, Louis Massignon, whose queer mystical activism with respect to French colonialism in northern Africa displays both sides of the superhumanities: their socially active and mystically transcendent dimensions. Massignon, after all, was an ardent anticolonialist and a mystically inclined intellectual who openly used parapsychological categories to explain how he was converted by a long “dead” Islamic saint.
