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On Becoming God - Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Hardcover, New)
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On Becoming God - Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Hardcover, New)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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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. Ben Morgan argues that the shared practices of human identity
can be understood as ways 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." The
book draws on phenomenology (Heidegger), gender studies (Beauvoir,
Butler) and contemporary neuroscience to present a new approach to
the history of modern identity. 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
in the same milieu. Reactions to the condemnation of Meister
Eckhart's teaching for heresy in 1329 offer a microcosm of the
circumstances in which something like the modern self arises as
people change their behavior toward others, toward themselves, and
toward what they call "God." The book makes Meister Eckhart and his
contemporaries appear as our contemporaries by changing the
assumptions with which we approach our own identity. To make this
change requires a revision of current vocabularies for approaching
ourselves, and in particular the vocabulary and habits inherited
from psychoanalysis. The book finishes by exploring the parallel
between late medieval confessors and their spiritual charges, and
late-nineteenth-century psychoanalysts and their patients. The
result is a renewed vision of the Freud's project of finding a
vocabulary for acknowledging and nurturing our everyday commitments
to others and to our spiritual longings.
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