The Mystic Fable, Volume Two: The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presentation -- Mystic Historicities -- 1. The Look: Nicholas of Cusa -- 2. The Poem and Its Prose -- 3. Shards of Speech -- 4. Uses of Tradition -- 5. Absolute Reading -- 6. Stories of Passions -- 7. The Experimental Science of Madness -- 8. Angelic Speech -- 9. Biblical Erudition -- 10. The Strange Secret: Pascal -- The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias -- Notes -- Index of Names.

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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