Mystical Languages of Unsaying

by Michael A. Sells

Book Overview

The subject of Mystical Languages of Unsaying is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, apophasis. which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this close study of apophasis in Greek, Christian, and Islamic texts, Michael...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226747875
• ISBN13: 9780226747873
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.5"