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Apophatic paths from Europe to China : regions without borders / William Franke.
Author
Franke, William
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]
©2018
Description
xxii, 246 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BL625 .F674 2018
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Negative theology
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Philosophy, Chinese
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Series
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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In Apophatic Paths from Europe to China, William Franke brings his original philosophy of the unsayable, previously developed from Western sources such as ancient Neoplatonism, medieval mysticism, and postmodern negative theology, into dialogue with Eastern traditions of thought. In particular, he compates Daoist Way of Chinese wisdom with Western apophatic thought that likewise pivots on recognizing the nonexistent, the unthinkable, and the unsayable. Leveraging François Jullien's exegesis of the Chinese classics' challenge to rethink the very basis of life and consciousness, Franke proposes negative theology as an analogue to the Chinese model of thought, which has long been recognized for its special attunement to silence at the limits of language. Crucial to Franke's agenda is the endeavor to discern and renew the claim of universality, rethought and reconfigured within the predicament of philosophy today considered specifically as a cultural or, more exactly, intercultural predicament--back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
All or nothing? Nature in Chinese thought and the apophatic occident
Nothing and the poetic making of sense
Immanence: the last word?
Universalism, or the nothing that is all
An extra word on originality
Intercultural dia-logue and its apophatic interstices
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ISBN
9781438468570 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1438468571 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2017015617
OCLC
1009182449
Other standard number
40027982158
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