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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morgan, Ben, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Subjects:
600-1500
Self (Philosophy) > History.
Mysticism > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Self.
Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Ego
Moi (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Mysticisme > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Moi (Psychologie)
Psychanalyse et philosophie.
RELIGION > Mysticism.
Mysticism > Middle Ages
Psychoanalysis and philosophy
Self
Self (Philosophy)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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