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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786196803321

Autore

Morgan Ben

Titolo

On becoming God [[electronic resource] ] : late medieval mysticism and the modern Western self / / Ben Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-3996-9

0-8232-4634-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Disciplina

126.09

Soggetti

Self (Philosophy) - History

Mysticism - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Self

Psychoanalysis and philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 do together rather than on their own.