Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 1. Introduction (by Knepper).- Chapter 2. "Ineffabilities and Conventional Truth in Jñanasrimitra's Buddhist Philosophy of Language," Amy Donahue.- Chapter 3. ". "The Reformatting of Matter as 'Stuff': Contemporary Inexpressibility as the New Ineffability," Barbara Stafford.- Chapter 4. "How To Speak About An Unspeakable God: The Christian Mysticism of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite," Timothy Knepper.- Chapter 5. "After Silence: That Which Comes Nearest," Jonathan Bellman.- Chapter 6. "'Names Are the Guest of Reality': Apophasis, Mysticism and Soteriology in Daoist Perspective," Louis Komjathy.- Chapter 7. "Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Hear and Talk to the Dead in Côte d'Ivoire," Joseph Hellweg.- Chapter 8. "Expressing the Inexpressible: The Heartbeat of Sikh Mysticism," Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh.- Chapter 9. "When Expression Is Expressed, Non-expression Is Not-expressed: A Zen Buddhist Approach to Talking About the Ineffable," Gereon Kopf.- Chapter 10. "'That From Which All Words Return': The Distinctive Methods of Language Utilization in Hinduism's Philosophical Tradition of Advaita Vedanta," Anantanand Rambachan.- Chapter 11. "Using a Net to Catch the Air: Poetry, Ineffability, and Small Stones in a Shoe," Christopher Janke.- Chapter 12. "The Sayings and Missayings of Samuel Beckett," Craig Owens.- Chapter 13. "Kabbalah, Language, and Transcendental Mysteries," Steven Katz, Alvin J. and Shirley Slater.- Chapter 14. "Love Is to Renounce Naming the Beloved: Muslim Mystic al-Rabi'a and Her Teaching of the Ineffable," Tamara Albertini.- Chapter 15. "Title To Be Determined," Leah Kalmanson.- Chapter 16. "Title To Be Determined," Timothy Knepper.