Mysticism in the light of the pragmatic

An excellent book on the ordinary man that was the mystique. A long halène work on what the mystical "says" and what "done" with what he says. The originality of the book is to read the word "mystical" (both as a noun, adjective, social representation, human organization, etc.) from pragmatic processes (enunciation, the act of speaking or "speech act "etc.), a company still in its early life of Michel de Certeau. His American journey (professor at San Diego, California) allowed him to read the tradition (here "mystical") from the theories of ordinary language with which he was familiar (Gilbert Ryle, George E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Peter Strawson, etc.), and with the language of the utterance (Hjelmslev, Benveniste). It is no coincidence that the "Fable mystique" is published in 1982, two years after the success of its synthesis "The Practice of Everyday Life" (2 vols.), Where the same pragmatic processes are applied as to report to language, space, time, writing, etc. "The mystical fable" is primarily a history book that traces the misadventures of this discipline in the 16th and 17th century. It is also of great poetic and literary value. The read is both delirium and delight, like the Hieronymus Bosch garden that Certeau dissects brilliantly.