10. Is Adorno's Philosophy a Negative Theology?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Echoes of an Embarrassment: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology–An Introduction 1
5. 1. Cloud of Unknowing: An Orientation in Negative Theology from Dionysius the Areopagite, Eckhart, and John of the Cross to Modernity 58
6. 2. Is the Ontological Argument Ontological? The Argument According to Anselm and Its Metaphysical Interpretation According to Kant 78
7. 3. Two Forms of Negative Theology Explained Using Thomas Aquinas 100
8. 4. Zarathustra's Yes and Woe: Nietzsche, Celan, and Eckhart on the Death of God 121
9. 5. Being Unable to Speak, Seen As a Period: Difference and Distance in Jean-Luc Marion 144
10. 6. The Theology of the Sign and the Sign of Theology: The Apophatics of Deconstruction 166
11. 7. Being Open As a Form of Negative Theology: On Nominalism, Negative Theology, and Derrida’s Performative Interpretation of Khôra 195
12. 8. Crisis in Our Speaking about God: Derrida and Barth's Epistle to the Romans 223
13. 9. The Gift of Loss: A Study of the Fugitive God in Bataille' Atheology, with References to Jean-Luc Nancy 250
14. 10. Is Adorno's Philosophy a Negative Theology? 293
15. 11. No Spiritual Investment in the World As It Is: Jacob Taubes's Negative Political Theology 320
16. 12. The Author's Silence: Transcendence and Representation in Mikhail Bakhtin 354
17. 13. On Faith and the Experience of Transcendence: An Existential Reflection on Negative Theology 375
18. Epilogue 385
19. General Bibliography 391
20. Index of Names and Titles 425
21. General Index 429
22. About the Authors 439