On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self

by Ben Morgan

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, as a way of managing and keeping at bay the impulses and experiences associated with the word "God." The "self" is a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823239926
• ISBN13: 9780823239924
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"