Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy

1. Introduction: Nahum BrownPart I: A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Interpretations and Consequences2. A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Kevin Hart3. Philosophy and Revelation after William Franke: William Christian Hackett4. To Be and Not To Know, That is the Question: William Franke's A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Sai Bhatawadekar5. Speaking About Silence (Sort of) : J. Aaron Simmons6. The Ironic Irenic Unsayable: A Correlation of William Franke and Elliot R. Wolfson: Lissa McCullough7. Synthetic Logic as the Philosophical Underpinning for Apophatic Theology: Commentary on A Philosophy of the Unsayable Stephen R. Palmquist8. Betwixt and Amidst: Mixed Genres of Sophia: William FrankePart II: Thinking the Apophatic: Hegel and Post-Hegel9. Hegel and the Negation of the Apophatic: Andrew Hass10. Totality and Apophasis: Expanding Rationality with Hegel: Nahum Brown<11. Infinite Reduplication: Kierkegaard's Negative Concept of God: Peter Kline12. The Apophatic Hermeneutics of Daoism and Derrida: David Chai<13. Apophatic Universalism East and West: Rethinking Universality Today in the Interstices between Cultures: William FrankePart III: The Vanishing Point of the Apophatic in Poetry and Literature14. Apophasis as a means of expressing ontological indeterminacy in Modernist literature: Sabine Lenore Muller15. Pointing Beyond the Limits of Language: Buddhism and the Apophatic in the Work of WS Merwin and Gary Snyder: William Edelglass16. The Astonishing Silence of Things: the Hypothesis of an Apophatic Tautology in the Poetry of Fernando Pessoa's Heteronym Alberto Caeiro: Bruno Beu17. Kipple and Bits: Philip K. Dick's Exoteric Apophaticism: Anthony Curtis AdlerConclusion18. The Path of Apophasis from Metaphysical Abstraction to Bodily Incarnation in Current Critical Thinking: William Franke