Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy [Hardcover]

In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary philosophy of religion.

1. Introduction: J. Aaron Simmons

Part I:?A Philosophy of the Unsayable

2. A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Kevin Hart

3. Speaking About Silence (Sort of); Aaron Simmons.

4. William Franke and the Unfinished Philosophical Revolution of the West; William C. Hackett.

5. To Be and Not To Know, That is the Question; Sai Bhatawadekar.

7. Betwixt and Amidst: William Franke

Part II: Thinking the Apophatic

8. Is Hegel an Apophatic Thinker?; Nahum Brown.

9. Hegel and the Negation of the Apophatic; Andrew W. Hass.

11. Heideggers Apophaticism;? Elliot R. Wolfson.

12. The Apophatic Trace of Derrida and Zhuangzi; Lissa McCullough.

13. The Irenic Ironic Unsayable; by David Chai.

14. Apophatic Universalism East and West; William Franke.

Part III. The Vanishing Point of the Apophatic in Poetry and Literature.

15. Apophasis as a Means of Expressing Ecological Indeterminacy; Sabine Lenore M?ller.

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