The Mystic Fable, Volume Two: The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries (Religion and Postmodernism)

de Certeau, Michel

ISBN 10: 022620913X / ISBN 13: 9780226209135

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2015

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Synopsis:

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and theology, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern mysticism.
 
Though the second volume remained in fragments at the time of his death, Michel de Certeau had the foresight to leave his literary executor detailed instructions for its completion, which formed the basis for the present work. Together, both volumes solidify Certeau’s place as a touchstone of twentieth-century literature and philosophy, and continue his exploration of the paradoxes of historiography; the construction of social reality through practice, testimony, and belief; the theorization of speech in angelology and glossolalia; and the interplay of prose and poetry in discourses of the ineffable. This book will be of vital interest to scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy, history, and literature.

About the Author:
At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Of his many books, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, and Heterologies: Discourse on the Other are available in English translation.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mystic Fable, Volume Two: The Sixteenth ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good