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A Philosophy of the Unsayable (Hardcover)
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In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, William Franke argues that the
encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial
philosophical issue of our time. He proposes an original philosophy
pivoting on analysis of the limits of language. The book also
offers readings of literary texts as poetically performing the
philosophical principles it expounds. Franke engages with
philosophical theologies and philosophies of religion in the debate
over negative theology and shows how apophaticism infiltrates the
thinking even of those who attempt to deny or delimit it. In six
cohesive essays, Franke explores fundamental aspects of
unsayability. In the first and third essays, his philosophical
argument is carried through with acute attention to modes of
unsayability that are revealed best by literary works, particularly
by negativities of poetic language in the oeuvres of Paul Celan and
Edmond Jabes. Franke engages in critical discussion of apophatic
currents of philosophy both ancient and modern, focusing on Hegel
and French post-Hegelianism in his second essay and on Neoplatonism
in his fourth essay. He treats Neoplatonic apophatics especially as
found in Damascius and as illuminated by postmodern thought,
particularly Jean-Luc Nancy's deconstruction of Christianity. In
the last two essays, Franke treats the tension between two
contemporary approaches to philosophy of religion-Radical Orthodoxy
and radically secular or Death-of-God theologies. A Philosophy of
the Unsayable will interest scholars and students of philosophy,
literature, religion, and the humanities. This book develops
Franke's explicit theory of unsayability, which is informed by his
long-standing engagement with major representatives of apophatic
thought in the Western tradition.
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