Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction. The Problem of Anselm: The Coincidence of Opposites -- 1. The Prayers: Persuasion and the Narrative of Longing -- 2. The Letters: Physical Separation and Spritual Union -- 3. Grammar and Logic: Linguistic Analysis, Method, and Pedagogy -- 4. The Monologion and Proslogion: Language Straining toward God -- 5. The Trilogy of Dialogues: Exploring Division and Unity -- 6. Uniting God with Human Being and Human Being with God -- 7. The Later Works: From Meditatio to Disputatio -- Conclusion. Reason, Desire, and Prayer -- Bibliography -- Index.