... to rethink community non-dialectically and, more specifically, outside of a dialectic of the proper. However, while Nancy seems to reject mediation altogether, Blanchot moves toward the formulation of a non-dialectical mediation, in which apophaticism works to tease out the affirmative potentialities...

...This chapter examines the concepts of apophasis and askesis in mystical theology and contemporary philosophy. It provides some explanation for the revival of interest in research and discussion on apophaticism in certain segments of contemporary philosophy. It emphasizes the link between apophasis...

... of Hippo Saint apophaticism Cloud of Unknowing meditation negative theology prayer This chapter is an extended gloss of the “litil worde of o silable” (little word of one syllable) that is mentioned several times in the Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous mystical treatise written...

... Eastern apophaticism and a personalist ontology. The third section seeks to illumine how Heideggerian thought exerted its influence upon Yannaras's ontological understanding of West and Greekness. In the fourth section, the chapter shall then study a term that emerges progressively in Yannaras...

..., for just as the ineffable name is uttered in the epithet that preserves its ineffability, so the invisible image is portrayed in the form that shelters its invisibility. ²⁷⁴ Traditional kabbalists—in line with the apophaticism of Neoplatonic negative theology—do assume there is a reality beyond...

... energeia proodoi apophaticism apophatism existentialism Heidegger Martin Kierkegaard Søren theophanic antinomic essence energies distinction Gregory Palamas Saint Kantian dogma Trinity Jesuits Maximus the Confessor Scripture Grummet David Milbank John Vladimir Lossky Henri de Lubac...