The Mystic Fable

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...

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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.

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Mystic Historicities
1. A Social Documentation
2. A Non-Place of Philosophy
3. Unstable Scientific Objects
Mystic Operations
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Presentation
Mystic Historicities
1. A Social Documentation
2. A Non-Place of Philosophy
3. Unstable Scientific Objects
Mystic Operations
Chapter One
The Look: Nicholas of Cusa
1. The All- Seeing
2. A Geometry of the Look
3. The Circular Discourse: “All and Each at the Same Time”
Chapter Two
The Poem and Its Prose
1. The Poetic Beginning
2. A Scenography of History: From Silence to Discourse
Chapter Three
Shards of Speech
Dialogues
Fragments
Melodies
Chapter Four
Uses of Tradition
1. On Interpretation as a “Received” Text
2. Surin, Reader of John of the Cross through R. Gaultier
3. John of the Cross, a “Saint” Who Wields Authority
4. The “Mystic” Language
5. The “Mystic Phrases”: To Say and Not to Say
6. From Extraordinary Graces to the “Universal and Confused Notion”
Chapter Five
Absolute Reading
1. The Book of the “Spirituals”: A Historical Framework
2. The “Moments” of Reading
Chapter Six
Stories of Passions
A Stage for Voices: A Historical Site
The Modalizing Excess
Breakage and Noises
Chapter Seven
The Experimental Science of Madness
1. Distance or Space
2. The Other World: The Invention of a Body
Chapter Eight
Angelic Speech
1. Enunciative Metaphors: “Angelizare”
2. Styles: Being and Saying
3. Figures of Exceedance
4. Retreats before History
Chapter Nine
Biblical Erudition
1. Chiaroscuros: From Corruption to Reform
2. Theoretical Preliminaries
3. Le Maistre de Sacy
4. Richard Simon
Chapter Ten
The Strange Secret: Pascal
The Fourth Letter to Mademoiselle de Roannez
Text and Pre-texts
The Staging of the Enunciatory Instance
Tripartition of Modalities
The Ruses of Argumentation: A War of Movement
Meaning: Thinking of / Passing to / the Other
“You”: The Quoted God
The Approach Conceals
The Opera of Speech: Glossolalias
Fictions of Speech
A “Believing”
Two Types
The Illusion of Meaning
Pfister: The Equivocation of Communication
Saussure: A Speaking Taken for a Language
The Vocal Institution
The Senseless and Repetition
Ebrietas spiritualis: An Opera
Notes
Index of Names
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