Transcendence in an Age of Tabloids and Terror

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Transcendence in an Age of Tabloids and Terror "
Jordan Carson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081934
Doc. No	:	LA125563
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jordan Carson
Title & Author	:	Transcendence in an Age of Tabloids and Terror [Article]\ Jordan Carson
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1-2
Page No	:	50–75
Abstract	:	This essay examines how Don DeLillo employs the apophatic tradition as a means of approaching the transcendent while resisting media absorption and extremist cooptation. Apophatic discourse—discourse that points toward that which is beyond language—honors the dynamic nature of truth, making it well suited to a postmodern, pluralistic era. Yet, apophasis is not just a recognition of the limits of language but a way of approaching the Ultimate that results in personal transformation. DeLillo’s invocation of mystery is often noted but rarely connected to spiritual formation. Yet his work is full of pilgrims disaffected by traditional religion who unavailingly seek spiritual fulfillment elsewhere. I demonstrate that DeLillo offers a standard for discriminating among religious mysteries by chronicling the spiritual etiolation of misguided pilgrims. I then identify apophatic discourse in his work, arguing that DeLillo upholds apophasis as a way of engaging mystery that is self-realizing and redemptive.
Descriptor	:	apophatic theology
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Don DeLillo
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	literature and belief
Descriptor	:	postmodernism
Descriptor	:	postsecularism
Descriptor	:	religion and literature
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301003‬