Mystical Languages of Unsaying

Name: Mystical Languages of Unsaying
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ISBN: 9780226747873

ISBN-10: 0226747875

ISBN-13: 9780226747873

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael A. Sells

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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,…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader


Introduction/Unsaying



Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus



The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena



Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event



Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form



Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete



Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth



Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography