Chargement en cours…

On Becoming God : Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self /

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...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Morgan, Ben, 1966- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.