Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Old Questions and New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Religion (J. Aaron Simmons)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 A Philosophy of the Unsayable (Kevin Hart)....Pages 17-22 Speaking About Silence (Sort of): When Does a Philosophy of the Unsayable Just Stop Being Philosophy? (J. Aaron Simmons)....Pages 23-38 William Franke and the Unfinished Philosophical Revolution of the West (William C. Hackett)....Pages 39-56 To Be and Not to Know, That Is the Question: Reading William Franke’s A Philosophy of the Unsayable (Sai Bhatawadekar)....Pages 57-70 Is There a Logic of the Ineffable? Or, How Is it Possible to Talk About the Unsayable? (Stephen Palmquist)....Pages 71-80 Betwixt and Amidst: Mixed Genres of Sophia (William Franke)....Pages 81-103 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Is Hegel an Apophatic Thinker? (Nahum Brown)....Pages 107-129 Hegel and the Negation of the Apophatic (Andrew W. Hass)....Pages 131-161 Infinite Reduplication: Kierkegaard’s Negative Concept of God (Peter Kline)....Pages 163-184 Heidegger’s Apophaticism: Unsaying the Said and the Silence of the Last God (Elliot R. Wolfson)....Pages 185-216 Irenic Ironic Unsayable: A Correlation of Franke and Wolfson (Lissa McCullough)....Pages 217-238 The Apophatic Trace of Derrida and Zhuangzi (David Chai)....Pages 239-261 Apophatic Universalism East and West: Rethinking Universality Today in the Interstices Between Cultures (William Franke)....Pages 263-292 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Apophasis as a Means of Expressing Ecological Indeterminacy: Reading Modernist Poetry with William Franke’s A Philosophy of the Unsayable (Sabine Lenore Müller)....Pages 295-320 The Astonished Silencing of Things: The Hypothesis of an Apophatic Tautology in the Poetry of Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronym Alberto Caeiro (Bruno Béu)....Pages 321-338 Unspeakable Trash: Heidegger, Philip K. Dick, and the Philosophy of Horror (Anthony Curtis Adler)....Pages 339-370 Concluding Essay: New Apophatic Paths in Current Critical Thinking (William Franke)....Pages 371-387 Back Matter ....Pages 389-400