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The Mystic Fable, Volume Two

The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

Michel de Certeau author Michael B Smith translator Luce Giard editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:15th Dec '15

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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.

ISBN: 9780226209135

Dimensions: 24mm x 17mm x 2mm

Weight: 567g

312 pages