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Mystical Languages of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells (1994, Trade Paperback) GOOD
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- “Dozens of pages marked.”
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226747875
ISBN-13
9780226747873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89033
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Mystical Languages of Unsaying
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Mysticism, Devotional, Rhetoric
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
93-023488
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
291.4/22
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction/Unsaying 1: Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus 2: The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena 3: Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event 4: Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form 5: Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete 6: Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth 7: Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography
Synopsis
The subject of Mystical Languages of Unsaying is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, apophasis . which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this close study of apophasis in Greek, Christian, and Islamic texts, Michael Sells offers a sustained, critical account of how apophatic language works, the conventions, logic, and paradoxes it employs, and the dilemmas encountered in any attempt to analyze it. This book includes readings of the most rigorously apophatic texts of Plotinus, John the Scot Eriugena, Ibn Arabi, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, with comparative reference to important apophatic writers in the Jewish tradition, such as Abraham Abulafia and Moses de Leon. Sells reveals essential common features in the writings of these authors, despite their wide-ranging differences in era, tradition, and theology. By showing how apophasis works as a mode of discourse rather than as a negative theology, this work opens a rich heritage to reevaluation. Sells demonstrates that the more radical claims of apophatic writers-claims that critics have often dismissed as hyperbolic or condemned as pantheistic or nihilistic-are vital to an adequate account of the mystical languages of unsaying. This work also has important implications for the relationship of classical apophasis to contemporary languages of the unsayable. Sells challenges many widely circulated characterizations of apophasis among deconstructionists as well as a number of common notions about medieval thought and gender relations in medieval mysticism., The subject of Mystical Languages of Unsaying is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, apophasis . which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this close study of apophasis in Greek, Christian, and Islamic texts, Michael Sells offers a sustained, critical account of how apophatic language works, the conventions, logic, and paradoxes it employs, and the dilemmas encountered in any attempt to analyze it. This book includes readings of the most rigorously apophatic texts of Plotinus, John the Scot Eriugena, Ibn Arabi, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, with comparative reference to important apophatic writers in the Jewish tradition, such as Abraham Abulafia and Moses de Leon. Sells reveals essential common features in the writings of these authors, despite their wide-ranging differences in era, tradition, and theology. By showing how apophasis works as a mode of discourse rather than as a negative theology, this work opens a rich heritage to reevaluation. Sells demonstrates that the more radical claims of apophatic writers--claims that critics have often dismissed as hyperbolic or condemned as pantheistic or nihilistic--are vital to an adequate account of the mystical languages of unsaying. This work also has important implications for the relationship of classical apophasis to contemporary languages of the unsayable. Sells challenges many widely circulated characterizations of apophasis among deconstructionists as well as a number of common notions about medieval thought and gender relations in medieval mysticism.
LC Classification Number
B728.S45 1994
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