On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)
Volume 1: Classic Formulations
Volume 2: Modern and Contemporary Transformations
From the back cover:
Apophasis has become a major topic in the humanities, particularly in philosophy, religion, and literature. This monumental two-volume anthology gathers together most of the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient, modern, and postmodern times. William Franke provides a major introductory essay on apophaticism at the beginning of each volume, and shorter introductions to each anthology selection. and shorter introductions to each anthology selection. The first volume, Classic Formulations, offers excerpts from Plato, Plotinus, Damascius, the Bible, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides, Rumi, Thomas Aquinas. Marguerite Porete, Dante, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and more. The second volume, Modern and Contemporary Transformations, contains texts by Holderlin, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Rilke, Kafka, Rosenzweig. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Weil, Schoenberg, Adorno, Beckett, Celan, Levinas. Derrida, Marion, and more.
WILLIAM FRANKE is associate professor of comparative literature and religious studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Dante's Interpretive Journey.
