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Book SynopsisReinterpreting premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject, this text argues that interest in mystical theological traditions is best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy's emphasis on the idea of human finitude/mortality.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of Main Texts Cited Introduction: Finitude and the Naming of God 1: The Deaths of God in Hegel: Overcoming Finitude and Religious Representation 2: The Temporal Experience of Consciousness: Hegel's Difference of Consciousness and Heidegger's Ontological Difference 3: The Naming of God in Hegel's Speculative Proposition: The Circle of Language and Annulment of the Singular 4: The Mortal Difference: Death and the Possibility of Existence in Heidegger 5: Transcending Negation: The Causal Nothing and Ecstatic Being in Pseudo-Dionysius's Theology 6: The Naming of God and the Possibility of Impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the Theology and Phenomenology of the Gift Conclusion: The Apophatic Analogy Bibliography Index
