On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self

Contents

ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PA RT I: CL E A R I N G T H E GRO U N D 1 Some Recent Versions of Mysticism 11 2 Empty Epiphanies in Modernist and Postmodernist Theory 24 3 The Gender of Human Togetherness 37 4 Histories of Modern Selfhood 60 PA RT II: A BR I E F PR E H I S TO RY O F T H E MO D E R N WE S T E R N SE L F 5 Meister Eckhart’s Anthropology 85 6 Becoming God in Fourteenth-Century Europe 101 7 The Makings of the Modern Self 125 PA RT III: ALT E R N AT I V E VO C A B U L A R I E S 8 Taking Leave of Sigmund Freud 151 9 Everyday Acknowledgments 200 Contents x ■ Contents Notes 223 Bibliography 277 Index 297 ...