The mystic fable

Author(s)

• Certeau, Michel de
• Smith, Michael B. (Michael Bradley)
• Giard, Luce

Bibliographic Information

The mystic fable

Michel de Certeau ; translated by Michael B. Smith

（Religion and postmodernism）

University of Chicago Press, c1992-

• v. 1 : alk. paper
• v. 1 : pbk.
• v. 2 : cloth

Other Title

La fable mystique

Note

Translation of: La fable mystique

Vol. 2. text established and presented by Luce Giard

Vol. 2. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• v. 1. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : alk. paper ISBN 9780226100364

Description

The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

Volume

v. 2 : cloth ISBN 9780226209135

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA18190894
• ISBN:
  • 0226100367
  • 0226100375
  • 9780226209135
• LCCN: 91041827
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BV5077.E85
  • DC20 : 248.2/2/09409031
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mysticism -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Mysticism -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11393259