The present, second volume provides an argument for which readers of Certeau have been waiting a long time-and they will not be disappointed. It continues and expands upon Certeau's life-long project of understanding how we define ourselves in relation to others. ' The Mystic Fable is a work of the first importance in its examination of early modern mystics. The book will be eagerly read and used by scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy, history, and literary studies. Together, both volumes solidify Certeau's place in French literary and philosophical circles, and continue his exploration of several interrelated areas, including the paradoxes of historiography, the construction of social reality through practice, testimony, and belief, the theorization of speech in angelology and glossalalia, and the interplay of prose and poetry in discourses of the ineffable. Volume two has long been anticipated, but it had to wait for Certeau's literary executor to gather the fragments after Certeau's death, and compile them into a coherent book. The first volume quickly became influential across a wide range of humanistic disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and theological contexts, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern mysticism. It has been twenty-two years since the Press published the first volume of The Mystic Fable' in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

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