De Kesel Effacing the Self

Mysticism and the Modern Subject
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9416-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Kesel, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction

Fénelonian Promenades

1. Love’s Intimate Violence: Selfless Love in Fénelon and Malebranche (and Robespierre)

2. Selfless: Eckhart, Fénelon and the Modern Subject

3. Love Thy Neighbor Purely: Mysticism and Politics in Fénelon

4. Nothing Writes: On Madame Guyon

The Mystical (of the) Self

5. The Power to Say I: On Simone Weil

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

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

8. As a Drop in the Ocean: Michel de Certeau’s Selfless Christianity

Mysticism in a Modern World

9. Down with Religion, Long Live Mysticism: Reflections on Spirituality’s Popularity

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

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

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marc De Kesel is Professor of Theology, Modernity, and Mysticism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is the author of Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII, also published by SUNY Press.