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