Apophasis and Envisioning the Invisible : Unveiling Veils of Infinity /
In this monograph, two of the most complicated theoretical topics confronting the scholar of mysticism (apophasis and infinity) are tackled. Writing about apophasis presents a unique dilemma as the term itself connotes the inability of language to name the namelessness of ultimate reality. Yet, the...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Aries Book Series ;
42.
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Call Number: BM1 .J445
- Introduction
- 1 Calculating Infinity at the Perimeter of Thought and Heeding Silence at the Edge of Language
- 1 Unified Fracture and the Singular Plural
- 2 Infinity and the Proximal Distance from Proximity
- 3 Speaking-Not, Agnosis, and Thinking beyond the Beyond Thinking
- 4 Tacitly Saying Nothing: Commingling of Apophasis and Kataphasis
- 5 Poiēsis and Speaking the Unspeakable
- 2 Apophasis and the Parabolic Garment of Truth: Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart
- 1 Maimonidean Via Negativa: Philosophical Mysticism and Seeing through the Veil
- 2 Seeing Nothing and the Nakedness of the Godhead in Meister Eckhart
- 3 Envisioning Invisibility: Polyontological Meontology and the One That Is Not One in Zoharic Kabbalah
- 1 From Luminal Darkness to Darkened Luminosity: Crossing the Threshold of Crossing
- 2 Dialetheic Identity of the Nonidentity of Darkness and Light
- 3 Meontological Polyontology of the One That Is Not One
- 4 Naming the Nameless and the Double Helix of Negation
- 5 A Lacanian Interlude: No Other of the Other
- 6 Heeding the Voice of Silence in the Silence of the Voice
- 7 Tetragrammaton without Letters: Language beyond Speech, Writing, and Contemplation
- 4 Metalogic of the Trace in Lurianic Kabbalah: Transcendent Immanence and Immanent Transcendence
- 1 Monistic Meontology and Disruption of Discontinuity
- 2 Trace of Infinity and Indifference of Difference
- 3 Vessel and Trace of Light: Othering the Otherness of the Not-Other
- 5 Imagining Nothing and the Snare of Metaphoricity: Abraham Miguel Cardoso's Mystical Nominalism
- 1 Phallomorphic Gaze and the Metaphorization of the Male Androgyne
- 2 Gnosis, Reason, and Faith: Messianic Enlightenment and the Secret of Divinity
- 3 Parabolic Investiture of the Infinitivity beyond Being and Nonbeing
- 4 Bridging the Unbridgeable and the Metaphor of the Metaphorical
- 6 Malkhut de-Adam Qadmon and the Myth of Ṣimṣum: Engendering Alterity in the Theosophy of Neḥemiah Ḥiyya Ḥayyon
- 1 Mystery of Infinity and the Diffusion of Light Depleted of Light
- 2 Gendering Infinity: Ṣimṣum and the Capacity for Boundary in the Boundless
- 3 Apophasis and the Atheological Repudiation of Godliness
- 4 Positioning the Feminine in a World That Is Entirely Masculine
- 7 Dialetheic Concealing the Disclosure of Concealing: Apophatic Embodiment and the Essence of Infinitivity in Ḥabad
- 1 Unconcealing the Concealment and the Finitudinal Infinitivity
- 2 Concealing the Concealment of Concealment
- 3 Two Types of Contemplation: Universal and Particular
- 4 Negation of the Negated Negation
- 5 Hierarchical Inversion and Gender Transposition
- 6 Messianic New Light: Retrieval of the End in Expectation of the Beginning
- 8 Naming the Namelessness of the Name: Constricting Expansion and Timespace of Infinity in Solomon ben Ḥayyim Ḥaiqel Elyashiv
- 1 Infinity and the Eternality of Time beyond Temporality
- 2 Ein Sof and the Apophatic Divestiture of Ontotheological Discourse
- 3 Ṣimṣum and the Khoric Space between Literal and Figurative
- 4 Metaphoricity and the Rhetoric of Same Difference
- 5 Apokatastasis and the Apophatic Return to Malkhut de-Ein Sof
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.