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On 9 Dec 2012, at 12:41, Ben Morgan wrote:
> Dear All,
> the following book may be of interest to some colleagues.
> All the best,
> Ben
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> Ben Morgan, On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Fordham UP, 2013)
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> http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/On_Becoming_God_Late_Medieval_Mysticism.html?id=WQJ9-LWTg8cC&redir_esc=y
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> TOC
> Introduction
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> Part One: Clearing the Ground
> 1: Some Recent Version of Mysticism
> 2: Empty Epiphanies in Modernist and Post-Modernist Theory
> 3: The Gender of Human Togetherness
> 4: Histories of Modern Selfhood
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> Part Two: A Brief Pre-History of the Modern Western Self
> 5: Eckhart’s Anthropology
> 6: Becoming God in Fourteenth-Century Europe
> 7: The Makings of the Modern Selfhood
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> Part Three: Alternative Vocabularies
> 8: Taking Leave of Sigmund Freud
> 9: Everyday Acknowledgments
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>
> Description
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> 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"? On Becoming God 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, as a way of managing and keeping at bay the impulses and experiences associated with the word "God." The "self" is a way of doing things, or of not doing things, with "God."
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> The book draws on phenomenology (Heidegger), gender studies (Beauvoir, Butler), and contemporary neuroscience. It surveys existing approaches to modern selfhood (Foucault, Charles Taylor) and proposes an alternative account by investigating late medieval mysticism, in particular texts written in Germany by Meister Eckhart and others.
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> It concludes by exploring the parallel between late medieval confessors and their spiritual charges, and late-nineteenth-century psychoanalysts and their patients, in search of a vocabulary for acknowledging and nurturing our everyday commitments to others and to our spiritual longings.
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