Apophatic paths from Europe to China : regions without borders
by
 
Franke, William, author.

Title
Apophatic paths from Europe to China : regions without borders
 
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
 
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

Author
Franke, William, author.

ISBN
9781438468570

Personal Author
Franke, William, author.

Physical Description
xxii, 246 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm

Series
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
 
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

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 -- Analytic table of contents.

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Negative theology.
 
Philosophy, Chinese.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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