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On becoming God : late medieval mysticism and the modern Western self / Ben Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Ben.
- Series:
- Perspectives in Continental philosophy.
- Fordham perspectives in Continental philosophy.
- Perspectives in continental philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy)--History.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Mysticism.
- Self.
- Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do we have to conceive of ourselves as isolated individuals inevitably distanced from other people and from whatever we might mean when we use the word 'God'? This title offers an innovative approach to the history of the modern Western self by looking at human identity as something people do together rather than on their own.
- Contents:
- Some recent version of mysticism
- Empty epiphanies in modernist and postmodernist theory
- The gender of human togetherness
- Histories of modern selfhood
- Meister Eckhart's anthropology
- Becoming God in fourteenth-century Europe
- The makings of the modern self
- Taking leave of Sigmund Freud
- Everyday acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823239962
- 0823239969
- 9780823246342
- 0823246345
- OCLC:
- 818827891
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31660 hdl
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