The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Volume 1


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This volume provides an analysis of Christian mysticism during the 16th and 17th centuries, along with an application of the author's transdisciplinary historiography. It aims to reveal the mystical aspect of postmodernism's movement of perpetual departure.

Author: Michel De Certeau
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/15/1995
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.87h x 5.99w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780226100371
ISBN10: 0226100375
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Mysticism
- History | Europe | Medieval

About the Author
At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Of his many books, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, and Heterologies: Discourse on the Other are available in English translation.