List of Illustrations
Introduction
Fénelonian Promenades
1. Love's Intimate Violence: Selfless Love in Fénelon and Malebranche (and Robespierre)
2. Selfless: Eckhart, Fénelon and the Modern Subject
3. Love Thy Neighbor Purely: Mysticism and Politics in Fénelon
4. Nothing Writes: On Madame Guyon
The Mystical (of the) Self
5. The Power to Say I: On Simone Weil
6. Contra-Religious Religion: The Mystical Experience of a Modern Protestant Minister
7. The Path of Mercy Means Simply that You Abandon Self: On a Novel by Shusaku Endo
8. As a Drop in the Ocean: Michel de Certeau's Selfless Christianity
Mysticism in a Modern World
9. Down with Religion, Long Live Mysticism: Reflections on Spirituality's Popularity
10. Selflessly Powerful: On Pseudo-Dionysius, Agamben, and Lefort
11. Selflessness and Science: On Mysticism, Materialism, and Psychoanalysis
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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.