Transcendence in an Age of Tabloids and Terror: Don DeLillo's Apophatic Approach
AbstractThis 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...
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Brill
[2019]
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2019, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 50-75 |
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DeLillo, Don 1936-
/ Transcendence
/ Apophatic theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements CB Christian life; spirituality |
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apophatic theology
B literature and belief B Postmodernism B Postsecularism B Religion and literature B Don Delillo |
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