{"product_id":"mystical-languages-of-unsaying-paperback-1","title":"Mystical Languages of Unsaying - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael A. Sells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subject of \u003ci\u003eMystical Languages of Unsaying\u003c\/i\u003e is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, \u003ci\u003eapophasis\u003c\/i\u003e. which literally means \"speaking away.\" Sometimes translated as \"negative theology,\" apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this close study of \u003ci\u003eapophasis\u003c\/i\u003e in Greek, Christian, and Islamic texts, Michael Sells offers a sustained, critical account of how apophatic language works, the conventions, logic, and paradoxes it employs, and the dilemmas encountered in any attempt to analyze it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book includes readings of the most rigorously apophatic texts of Plotinus, John the Scot Eriugena, Ibn Arabi, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, with comparative reference to important apophatic writers in the Jewish tradition, such as Abraham Abulafia and Moses de Leon. Sells reveals essential common features in the writings of these authors, despite their\u003cbr\u003e wide-ranging differences in era, tradition, and theology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By showing how \u003ci\u003eapophasis\u003c\/i\u003e works as a mode of discourse rather than as a negative theology, this work opens a rich heritage to reevaluation. Sells demonstrates that the more radical claims of apophatic writers-claims that critics have often dismissed as hyperbolic or condemned as pantheistic or nihilistic-are vital to an adequate account of the mystical languages of unsaying. This work also has important implications for the relationship of classical \u003ci\u003eapophasis\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporary languages of the unsayable. Sells challenges many widely circulated characterizations of \u003ci\u003eapophasis\u003c\/i\u003e among deconstructionists as well as a number of common notions about medieval thought and gender relations in medieval mysticism.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.46 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42563063644256,"sku":"9780226747873","price":76.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/Z3pCakw3SGtaMU52UUlmU1FWV2pQUT09.webp?v=1770396928","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/mystical-languages-of-unsaying-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}