Stasis and Ecstasy. Archaeology of the early modern self

PART ONE PROLOGUE

I. Pre-texts

1. Moria's Mirror

2. Classical and Grotesque

II. Tools

1. Procedures

2. Terms

3. Unitary Selves, Fragmented Selves

III. Archaeologies: Husserl to Baudrillard

1. Immanence-in-Transcendence: Phenomenological Selves

2. Mapping the Mind: The Self in Psychoanalysis

3. The Disjunctuive Synthesis: Deleuze and Guattari

4. The Ecstasy of Communication: Jean Baudrilard

IV. Genealogies: Foucault To Reiss

1. Traversed by Power: Foucauldian Selves

2. Moral Topography: Charles Taylor

3. Early Modern Selves: State of the Art

V. Stasis and Ecstasy: The Space of Self

PART TWO

GENEALOGIES: PYTHAGORAS TO POMPONAZZI

I. Migrant Souls, Corporeal Souls: Pythagoras To The Hermetica

1. The Soul's Bodies: Pythagoras's Metempsychosis

2. The Soul Alone: Plato's Dialogues

3. The Body's Soul: Aristotle's DeAnima

4. The Bodily Soul: Epicurus to Lucretius

5. The Turn (in)to the Body: Stoicism to Galen

6. The Arche of Soul: Plotinus

7. The Body in the Mind: The Spheres' Tiring House

II. The Word Become Flesh: The Gospels to the Kabbalah

1. "Birth from Above": the Pauline Self

2. "I, the soul": St Augustine

3. Ravished out of Oneself: The Continental Mystics

4. Thomist Rapture

5. The Fire of Love: The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century

6. The Trance of the Letter: the Medieval Kabbalah

III. Mortal Soul, Immortal Soul: Early Modern Debates

1. "The Shape of the Soul": Theologia Platonica

2. Pico's Proteus: The Praise of Plasticity

3. Reformed Selves

4. The Neo-Aristotelians

5. "Turned Shapes": Golding's Ovid

6. The Metamorphoses of Frenzy

7. Conversing with Angels: John Dee

8. The Medical Agenda: Opening the Vesalian Body

PART THREE

ARCHAEOLOGIES. SPENSER, MARLOWE, SHAKESPEARE ..

I. The Self in Narrative Space

1. Narcissus and Beyond: Guillaume to Langland

2. The Ecstasies of Redcrosse: The Faerie Queene, Book I

3. The Stasis of Guy on: The Faerie Queene, Book II

4. Britomart, or the Ecstasy of Self-Production: The Faerie Queene, Book III.

II. The Stage of Self

1. Stasis in the Castle of Perseverance

2. The Ecstasies of Anima

3. "I Hold the Fates": Tamburlaine the Great

4. "Nor Am I out of It": Doctor Faustus

III. The Sonnet Self

1. "Ecce deus fortior me": Dante to Sidney

2. "O, That You Were Yourself': Shakespeare's Sonnets

PART FOUR

EPILOGUE

Post-texts

Works Cited

Notes