Description
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers scholars in philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma and transcendence inlight of the interdisciplinary character of the field of Trauma Studies and its splintering across the multiple theoretical approaches.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence
Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto
Constructive Phenomenologies of Trauma
1. Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma Theories
Vincenzo Di Nicola
2. Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional Trauma
Robert D. Stolorow
3. Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other’s Keeper
Donna Orange
4. Evil, Trauma, and the Building of Absences
Eric Boynton
5. The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic Trauma
Eric Severson
Social and Political Analyses of Traumatic Experience
6. The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard
Tina Chanter
7. Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary
George Yancy
8. Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My Lai
Ronald Eyerman
9. The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived Experience
Peter Capretto
Theological Aporia in the Aftermath of Trauma
10. Theopoetics of Trauma
Shelly Rambo
11. Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake
Marcia Mount Shoop
12. Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
Prospects
13. Prospects of Trauma for the Philosophy of Religion
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Notes
Bibliography
Index
