Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

“I fully recommend all chapters as richly deserving and important for philosophical attention to ineffability.” (Jerome Gellman, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 86, 2019)

• Chapter 1. Introduction (by Knepper).- Chapter 2. "Ineffabilities and Conventional Truth in Jñānaśrimitra’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.