Table of Contents

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 Shūsaku Endō

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