Indiscretion

Finitude and the Naming of God

By: Thomas A. Carlson

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Paperback | 2 February 1999 | Edition Number 1

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How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the problem by speaking of God using "negative" languageâ"devices such as grammatical negation and the rhetoric of "darkness" or "unknowing"â"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.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Main Texts
Cited Introduction: Finitude and the Naming of God
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 Causal Nothing and Ecstatic Being in Pseudo-Dionysius's Theology
The Naming of God and the Possibility of Impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the Theology and Phenomenology of the Gift
Conclusion: The Apophatic Analogy
Bibliography
Index
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