On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts: Volume 2: Modern and Contemporary Transformations Book

Preface: Apophasis as a Mode of Discourse     1
Introduction: Modern and Contemporary Cycles of Apophasis     9
Fragments and Finitude
Holderlin, Poems: "What Is God?," "The Root of All Evil," "In My Boyhood Days," "Exhortation," "Brevity"     53
Schelling, "The Stupor of Reason," from The Philosophy of Revelation, Berlin Introduction, Lecture VIII     62
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, from Problema III     74
Dickinson, Poems 1668, 1563, 581, 1700, 288, 420, 985, 1004, 1071, 1251, 1452     84
Hofmannsthal, The Lord Chandos Letter     90
Rilke, Duino Elegies 9 and 8; Sonnets to Orpheus I.1, 3, 5     102
Kafka, "On Parables" and "The Silence of the Sirens"     113
Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator"     121
New Apophatic Philosophies
Rosenzweig, from The Star of Redemption: God and His Being or Metaphysics; Esthetic First Principles; The Proper Name; Liturgy and Gesture; The Star or the Eternal Truth     139
Wittgenstein, "A Lecture on Ethics" and Tractatus 6.4-7     166
Heidegger, "Words," from On the Way to Language     180
Weil, "He Whom We Must Love Is Absent"     202
Depicting, Composing, Representing Nothing
Malevich, "God Is Not Cast Down"     211
Schoenberg, Moses and Aaron, Act II, scenes 4-5, and Act III (fragment)     246
Adorno, "Music and Language: A Fragment," from Quasi una fantasia, and Negative Dialectics, III.iii.12     260
Cage, "Lecture on Nothing," from Silence     271
Jankelevitch, "Music and Silence," from Music and the Ineffable     283
Beckett, from The Unnamable and "Texts for Nothing," #8     308
Steiner, "Silence and the Poet," from Language and Silence     323
Philip, from Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence     344
The Unutterably Other
Bataille, from Inner Experience     361
Jabes, from El, or the Last Book and The Book of Resemblances     376
Celan, selected poems     387
"Below," "An Eye, Open," "With All My Thoughts,"
"Dumb Autumn Smells," "Psalm," "It Is No Longer," "Mandorla,"
"Etched Away," "Once," "The Trumpet Part," "The Poles"
Levinas, from Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence     406
Blanchot, "How to Discover the Obscure?" from The Infinite Conversation     427
Derrida, from "Sauf le nom (Post-Scriptum)," in On the Name     443
Marion, from God Without Being     460
Permissions and Acknowledgments     477