Cloud of the Impossible : Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement / Catherine Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Catherine, author.

Series:

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism.

Negative theology--Christianity.

Negative theology.

Planets--Miscellanea.

Planets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertainty, of indeterminate and interdependent outcomes, possibly catastrophic. Yet the connectivity and collectivity of social movements, of the fragile, unlikely webs of an alternative notion of existence, keep materializing--a haunting hope, densely entangled, suggesting a more convivial, relational world.Catherine Keller brings process, feminist, and ecopolitical theologies into transdisciplinary conversation with continental philosophy, the quantum entanglements of a "participatory universe," and the writings of Nicholas of Cusa, Walt Whitman, A. N. Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and Judith Butler, to develop a "theopoetics of nonseparable difference." Global movements, personal embroilments, religious diversity, the inextricable relations of humans and nonhumans--these phenomena, in their unsettling togetherness, are exceeding our capacity to know and manage. By staging a series of encounters between the nonseparable and the nonknowable, Keller shows what can be born from our cloudiest entanglement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Before

Part 1: Complications

1. The Dark Nuance of Beginning

2. Cloud-Writing

3. Enfolding and Unfolding God

Part 2: Explications

4. Spooky Entanglements

5. The Fold in Process

6. "Unfolded out of the Folds"

7. Unsaying and Undoing

Part 3: Implications

8. Crusade, Capital, and Cosmopolis

9. Broken Touch

10. In Questionable Love

After

Note

Acknowledgments

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231538701

0231538707

OCLC:

894791350