Effacing the self : mysticism and the modern subject / Marc De Kesel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kesel, Marc de, author.

Series:

SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Selflessness (Psychology).

Mysticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Fenelonian Promenades

Chapter 1 Love's Intimate Violence: Selfless Love in Fenelon and Malebranche (and Robespierre)

Agape

Loving Is Willing

Willing Is Loving

A Violent "Self"

Terrific Love . . .

... for the State and for the People

Chapter 2 Selfless: Eckhart, Fenelon and the Modern Subject

Eckhartian Selflessness ...

... as "Subject"

Modernity: A Change of Subject

Mysticism and Modernity

"On the Renunciation of the Self"

"The interior voice"

"Pure Love"

The Pain of the Modern Martyrium

Chapter 3 Love Thy Neighbor Purely: Mysticism and Politics in Fenelon

Pur Amour and Neighborly Love

Fenelon: Political

The Pure Basis of Politics

Chapter 4 Nothing Writes: On Madame Guyon

Against "Holy Indifference"

Rectifying Fenelon

"I am not allowed to continue here"

Writing Scripture

Nothing That Liberates

Nothingness as Place

Nothing Writes

The Mystical (of the) Self

Chapter 5 The Power to Say I: On Simone Weil

Nothing but the I

Religion for Slaves

Redemptive Suffering

"The irreducible basis of my suffering"

Chapter 6 Contra-Religious Religion: The Mystical Experience of a Modern Protestant Minister

A Religious Experience?

A Philosophical Experience?

Being and Question

Contra-Religious ...

... Religion

Philosophy / Religion

Chapter 7 The Path of Mercy Means Simply that You Abandon Self: On a Novel by Shus̄aku Endo

"Trample! Trample!"

A Brief Genealogy of the Christian Ego as Self-Denial

Rodrigues's Doubt

Chapter 8 As a Drop in the Ocean: Michel de Certeau's Selfless Christianity

Christianity, a New Mythology?

Christianity's rupture instauratrice

A Subversive Drop of Water in the Sea

Frame of Reference: One Way

Frame of Reference: The Other Way Around

What Is Spirituality?

Rodrigues Revisited

Mysticism in a Modern World

Chapter 9 Down with Religion, Long Live Mysticism: Reflections on Spirituality's Popularity

The Emergence of Modernity and the Modern Social

The Emergence of Spirituality

Spiritualite as Dispositive for the Modern Social

Spirituality and the Social

Chapter 10 Selflessly Powerful: On Pseudo-Dionysius, Agamben, and Lefort

Failing Words

Power

Government

The Empty Seat of Power from the Neoplatonic Perspective

The Empty Seat of Power from the Modern Perspective

Coda

Chapter 11 Selflessness and Science: On Mysticism, Materialism, and Psychoanalysis

Mysticism-less Self-Knowledge

Selfless Mysticism, Selfless Self-Knowledge

Self, Selflessness, and Excess

Psychoanalysis as Selfless Science . . .

... of the Self . . .

... and Its Pleasure

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: De Kesel, Marc Effacing the Self

ISBN:

9781438494166

1438494165

OCLC:

1390919396