On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Position, Purpose, and Structure of the Work
Acknowledgments
Part I. Thinking Theologically and the Apophatic
	One Introduction: Apophatic Thinking and Its Applications; Between Exhaustion and Explosion
	Two Outbound Reflection: Unsaying Theology in the Name of All
Part II. The New Apophatic Universalism
	Three Apophatic Mysticism as Practical Philosophy: Nicholas of Cusa and the Applications of Ignorance
	Four Contemporary Atheist Philosophers and St. Paul’s Revolutionary Political Theology: A Genealogy of the New Universalism
Part III. Comparative Philosophies of Culture
	Five Cosmopolitan Conviviality and Negative Theology: Europe’s Vocation to Universalism
	Six Except Asia: Agamben’s Logic of Exception and Its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots
Part IV. Cross-Cultural and Transhistorical Interdisciplinarity
	Seven Liberal Arts Education Worldwide Unlimited Inc.: The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities
	Eight Apophasis and the Axial Age: Transcendent Origins of Critical Consciousness
Part V. Emergences in Literary and Cultural Theory
	Nine The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Toward a New (Non)Concept of Universality
	Ten World Literature: A Means or a Menace to the Encounter with the Other?
Part VI. Critical Consciousness and Cognitive Science
	Eleven Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable
	Twelve Cognitive Universality between Science and the Humanities
Concluding Elucidation: On the Extension and Intension of “Apophasis”
Appendix: Analytic Table of Contents
Notes
Index