Care of God as Care of the Self: Foucault, Gnosis, and Curation of the Divine Mirror in John of Morigny’s Ninth Vision

Abstract This article draws on Foucault’s understanding of “thought” as “freedom” and his description of “care of the self,” connecting these concepts with the account of a vision of Christ recorded by the fourteenth-century French monk, John of Morigny (fl 1300–1315). I argue that John’s account re...

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Main Author: Fanger, Claire 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Gnosis
Year: 2021, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 133-155
Further subjects:B John of Morigny
B “thought”
B Self-care
B Foucault
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