On What Cannot Be Said

<p>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 <i>Modern and Contemporary Transformations</i> contains texts by Hölderlin Schelling Kierkegaard Dickinson Rilke Kafka Rosenzweig Wittgenstein Heidegger Weil Schoenberg Adorno Beckett Celan Levinas Derrida Marion and more.</p>