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Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
Mélanie V. Walton
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Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise
出版Lexington Books, 2013-08-29
主題Philosophy / Movements / Post-StructuralismPhilosophy / ReligiousPhilosophy / Metaphysics
ISBN07391834279780739183427
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IQSaAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Testimony demands the witness to demonstrate her knowledge—that knowledge that she must have by the fact of being a witness to something, even if this something exceeds the possibility of expression by any means amenable to verification. Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise rigorously studies the inexpressible expression provoked by two illustrative examples: the silenced testimony of the Holocaust survivor, in Jean-François Lyotard’s The Differend, and the religious faithful, in Pseudo-Dionysius’ The Divine Names. Though coming from vastly different philosophical moments, the methods used by Lyotard and Dionysius prove to dissolve the apparent heterogeneity of postmodernism and Neoplatonist Christian mysticism and open radical new lines of dialogue. Mélanie Victoria Walton critically evaluates each thinker and tradition, rethinks witnessing, testimony, sublimity, and apophaticism, and then engages them together to forge a new reading of silence and eros. The resulting insights will be especially valuable to students and scholars of Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, theology and religious studies, medieval studies, and Holocaust studies.