Mysticism as Counter-Conduct: A Foucauldian Retrieval of Dante and St. Catherine of Siena
This essay draws upon Dante and St. Catherine of Siena to flesh out the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Dante and Catherine occupy an important place in early modern history, challenging the designs of medieval pastoral power by embodying a new, secular mixture of the active and the contempl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2024
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-154 |
| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBE Anthropology TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This essay draws upon Dante and St. Catherine of Siena to flesh out the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Dante and Catherine occupy an important place in early modern history, challenging the designs of medieval pastoral power by embodying a new, secular mixture of the active and the contemplative life. This essay, with Foucault as a guide, suggests that they offer us another way to be modern, a path of self-cultivation surpassing modern norms for nature, the self, and the project of rational knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/jsce2024319100 |