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Testimony demands the witness to demonstrate her knowledge-that
knowledge that she must have by the fact of being a witness to
something, even if this something exceeds the possibility of
expression by any means amenable to verification. Expressing the
Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: Bearing Witness as
Spiritual Exercise rigorously studies the inexpressible expression
provoked by two illustrative examples: the silenced testimony of
the Holocaust survivor, in Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Differend,
and the religious faithful, in Pseudo-Dionysius' The Divine Names.
Though coming from vastly different philosophical moments, the
methods used by Lyotard and Dionysius prove to dissolve the
apparent heterogeneity of postmodernism and Neoplatonist Christian
mysticism and open radical new lines of dialogue. Melanie Victoria
Walton critically evaluates each thinker and tradition, rethinks
witnessing, testimony, sublimity, and apophaticism, and then
engages them together to forge a new reading of silence and eros.
The resulting insights will be especially valuable to students and
scholars of Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion,
theology and religious studies, medieval studies, and Holocaust
studies.
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