Effacing the Self - Mysticism and the Modern Subject

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

About the author

Marc De Kesel is Professor of Theology, Modernity, and Mysticism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is the author of Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Marc De Kesel, Marc De De Kesel
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781438494142
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9414-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Suny Theology and Continental; SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Mysticism, Theology, mysticism, Spirituality & religious experience, History of Religion, Philosophy of religion, Spirituality and religious experience