Two-volume set "On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, an

Rosie Perera

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.

Tobias Lampert

Looks like a fine set, Rosie - I guess I would go for it in Logos. The only thing is that I'd like the second volume to include a few more specific theological approaches - it's a bit philosophically overbalanced ...

fgh

Looks interesting!

MJ. Smith

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Anything that includes my absolute favorite contemporary author (Jabes) has to be good. [:)]