The Meaning and Power of Negativity
Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2017
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Beschreibung
Negativity is not a negative phenomenon, but omnipresent in human life and thinking. Without it, contingency and otherness, subjectivity and power, transcendence and immanence in human life and culture cannot be understood. The present volume examines forms of negativity in central religious, theological, and philosophical traditions in Western, Buddhist, and Korean thought.
Negativity is omnipresent in human life and thinking. Without it, contingency and otherness, subjectivity and power, transcendence and immanence and other manifestations of the pluriform dynamics between signifier, signified and meaning in human life and culture cannot be understood. This volume explores the significance of negativity in Western and Eastern thought in four central areas: in the traditions of negative theology in the West; in the dialectics of negativity in the wake of Hegel and in existential philosophy; in versions of negative dialectics and negative hermeneutics in the 20th century; and in Buddhist thought about emptiness, Korean philosophies of nothingness, and the similarities and differences between the mystical traditions of the East and the West. Together, the four parts outline a panorama of questions, positions, and approaches that must be explored by anyone who wants to address questions of negativity in the context of contemporary philosophical, theological, ethical, and existential challenges.
Autor*in
Ingolf U. Dalferth
Born 1948; 1977 Promotion; 1982 Habilitation; Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich; Danforth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California; Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa.
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negative theology negation nothingness emptiness negative dialectics suffering signifier and signified