TY - JOUR
AU - Knepper, Timothy
AB - Int J Philos Relig (2015) 77:191–194 DOI 10.1007/s11153-015-9507-4 BOOK REVIEW Mélanie V. Walton: Expressing the inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: bearing witness as spiritual exercise Lexington Books, Lanham, 2013, 326 pp., $100 (cloth) Timothy D. Knepper Received: 16 December 2014 / Accepted: 6 January 2015 / Published online: 11 January 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 All too often, the study of ineffability only looks on the bright side of life—mystical experiences of blissful unity, primordial grounds of overflowing fecundity, noetic truths of existential profundity. To some extent, this is true too for Mélanie V. Wal- ton’s Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: Bearing Wit- ness as Spiritual Exercise, which turns to a “desperate love letter to God” (p. 8)—the eros-infused naming and unnaming of God in The Divine Names, a treatise by the sixth-century Neoplatonic-Christian Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite—for a means by which a Holocaust survivor might confront a Holocaust denier. Still, that the Holo- caust features at all in a religio-philosophical book on ineffability might help give an otherwise lofty field of inquiry a much-needed grounding. It is difficult to put Walton’s thesis succinctly: Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius is a multi-faceted work with 
TI - Mélanie V. Walton: Expressing the inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: bearing witness as spiritual exercise
JF - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
DO - 10.1007/s11153-015-9507-4
DA - 2015-01-11
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/m-lanie-v-walton-expressing-the-inexpressible-in-lyotard-and-pseudo-x0UR6X2IRm
SP - 191
EP - 194
VL - 77
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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