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- catalog abstract "How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the problem by speaking of God using "negative" language--devices such as grammatical negation and the rhetoric of "darkness" or "unknowing"--and their efforts have fascinated contemporary scholars. In this strikingly original work, Thomas A. Carlson reinterprets premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject in light of one another. The recent interest in mystical theological traditions, Carlson argues, is best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy's emphasis on the idea of human finitude and mortality. Combining both historical research in theology (from Pseudo-Dionysius to Aquinas to Eckhart) and contemporary philosophical analysis (from Hegel and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Derrida, and Marion), Indiscretion will interest philosophers, theologians, and other scholars concerned with the possibilities and limits of language surrounding both God and human subjectivity.".
- catalog contributor b10808172.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the problem by speaking of God using "negative" language--devices such as grammatical negation and the rhetoric of "darkness" or "unknowing"--and their efforts have fascinated contemporary scholars. In this strikingly original work, Thomas A. Carlson reinterprets premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject in light of one another. The recent interest in mystical theological traditions, Carlson argues, is best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy's emphasis on the idea of human finitude and mortality. Combining both historical research in theology (from Pseudo-Dionysius to Aquinas to Eckhart) and contemporary philosophical analysis (from Hegel and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Derrida, and Marion), Indiscretion will interest philosophers, theologians, and other scholars concerned with the possibilities and limits of language surrounding both God and human subjectivity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index.".
- catalog description "The deaths of God in Hegel: overcoming finitude and religious representation -- The temporal experience of consciousness: Hegel's difference of consciousness and Heidegger's ontological difference -- The naming of God in Hegel's speculative proposition: the circle of language and annulment of the singular -- The mortal difference: death and the possibility of existence in Heidegger -- Transcending negation: the casual nothing and ecstatic being in Pseudo-Dionysius' theology -- The naming of God and the possibility of impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the theology and phenomenology of the gift.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 307 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226092933 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226092941 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Religion and postmodernism".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "211 21".
- catalog subject "BT55 .C37 1999".
- catalog subject "God Knowableness.".
- catalog subject "Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.".
- catalog subject "Negative theology Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Negative theology.".
- catalog subject "Philosophical theology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The deaths of God in Hegel: overcoming finitude and religious representation -- The temporal experience of consciousness: Hegel's difference of consciousness and Heidegger's ontological difference -- The naming of God in Hegel's speculative proposition: the circle of language and annulment of the singular -- The mortal difference: death and the possibility of existence in Heidegger -- Transcending negation: the casual nothing and ecstatic being in Pseudo-Dionysius' theology -- The naming of God and the possibility of impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the theology and phenomenology of the gift.".
- catalog title "Indiscretion : finitude and the naming of God / Thomas A. Carlson.".
- catalog type "text".