On What Cannot Be Said

Apophasis has become a major topic in the humanities particularly in philosophy religion and literature. This monumental two-volume anthology gathers together most of the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient modern and postmodern times. William Franke provides a major introductory essay on apophaticism at the beginning of each volume and shorter introductions to each anthology selection. The second volume Modern and Contemporary Transformations contains texts by Hölderlin Schelling Kierkegaard Dickinson Rilke Kafka Rosenzweig Wittgenstein Heidegger Weil Schoenberg Adorno Beckett Celan Levinas Derrida Marion and more.