Elmore, M.
Mysticism as Counter-Conduct: A Foucauldian Retrieval of Dante and St. Catherine of Siena (2024) Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 44 (1), pp. 137-154.
DOI: 10.5840/jsce2024319100
Abstract
This essay draws upon Dante and St. Catherine of Siena to flesh out the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Dante and Catherine occupy an important place in early modern history, challenging the designs of medieval pastoral power by embodying a new, secular mixture of the active and the contemplative life. This essay, with Foucault as a guide, suggests that they offer us another way to be modern, a path of self-cultivation surpassing modern norms for nature, the self, and the project of rational knowledge. © Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
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