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On becoming God : late medieval mysticism and the modern Western self / Ben Morgan.

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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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