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.

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Information

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Year

2015

ISBN

9780226209272

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Religion

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Presentation
Mystic Historicities
Chapter One The Look: Nicholas of Cusa
Chapter Two The Poem and Its Prose
Chapter Three Shards of Speech
Chapter Four Uses of Tradition
Chapter Five Absolute Reading
Chapter Six Stories of Passions
Chapter Seven The Experimental Science of Madness
Chapter Eight Angelic Speech
Chapter Nine Biblical Erudition
Chapter Ten The Strange Secret: Pascal
The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias
Notes
Index of Names