Expressing the inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius : bearing witness as spiritual exercise / Mélanie V. Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Mélanie Victoria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.

Lyotard, Jean-François.

Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998. Differend.

Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.

Pseudo-Dionysius.

Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. On the divine names.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rigorously studying the inexpressible expression provoked by the silenced testimony of the Holocaust survivor, in Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend, and the religious faithful, in Pseudo-Dionysius' The Divine Names, proves to dissolve the apparent heterogeneity of postmodernism and Neoplatonist Christian mysticism and open radical new lines of dialogue. Expressing the Inexpressible critically evaluates each thinker

Contents:

EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE IN LYOTARD AND PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: What is the Inexpressible Expression?; One. Witness and Testimony; Prologue to the Problem; The Witness and Testimony in Lyotard; Heidegger's Silence; Lyotard on Testimonial Narrative; Lyotard's Critique of Heidegger; The Witness and Testimony in Pseudo-Dionysius; Concluding Remarks; Two. Contextualizing Jean-François Lyotard; Prologue on Contextualization; The Difficulty of Characterization; What is Postmodernism?; Three. Bearing Witness in The Differend; The Differend's Style and Form

The Problem of Bearing WitnessTestimony; And as Linkage in Gertrude Stein; Therapeutic Language Games in Ludwig Wittgenstein; Parataxis in Theodor Adorno; Authorization of the Addressee in the Cashinahua; Concluding Remarks; Four. Contextualizing Pseudo-Dionysius; The Difficulty of Characterization; Neoplatonism; Mysticism; Five. Bearing Witness in The Divine Names; The Divine Names' Style and Form; Witnessing and Testimony; Naming Names; Subsistence and Participation; Good and Light; Beauty and Eros; Evil and Proportionate Privation; Mystical Language and Spiritual Exercise

Six. Silence and ErosIntroduction to a Last/Further Solution; The Symbiosis of Silence and Eros; Lyotard on the Possibility of a Just Silence; For the Love of God; Conclusion: The Expression of the Inexpressible; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8342-7

OCLC:

857769688