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Philosophy of Religion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Plato\u2019s Apophatic Legacy and the Unwritten Doctrines (I-II): Negative Theologies and Poetics<\/a>
\nArchiwum Historii Filozofii i My\u015bli Spo\u0142ecznej \u00bb Volume 69 (2024)<\/p>\n

The Death of God as Source of the Creativity of Humans<\/a><\/p>\n

A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness<\/a><\/p>\n

Apophasis and the Turn of Philosophy to Religion: From Neoplatonic Negative Theology to Postmodern Negation of Theology<\/a> Sourcelink <\/a> (Full Text)<\/a>\u00a0 Google books<\/a><\/p>\n

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Apopohatic Ignorance and its Applications<\/a><\/p>\n

The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and in Post-secular Postmodernity<\/a><\/p>\n

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Franz Rozenzweig and the Emergence of a Post-Secular Philosophy of the Unsayable<\/a><\/p>\n

Varieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

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Unsayability and the Promise of Salvation: An Apophatics of the World to Come<\/a><\/p>\n

Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue:\u00a0 A Negatively Theological Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality<\/a><\/p>\n

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La teologia negativa come critica dell\u2019idolatria<\/a><\/p>\n


\nExistentialism:\u00a0An Atheistic or a Christian Philosophy?<\/a> Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse<\/a> (Full Text)<\/a><\/p>\n

Poetry, Prophecy, and Theological Revelation<\/a><\/p>\n

Agamben’s Logic of Exception and its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots<\/a><\/p>\n

Religion and Representation (with Chance Woods):\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part 2: Religious Belief and the Culture Limits of Representation (pp. 28-42)<\/a><\/p>\n

Learned Ignorance: The Apophatic Tradition of Cultivating the Virtue of Unknowing<\/a><\/p>\n

Religion and Representation: 2. Religious Belief and the Cultural Limits of Representation<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (This Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory – online)<\/a><\/p>\n

(In Chinese translation): Amphibolies of the Postmodern: Hyper-Secularity or the Return of the Religious\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

At the Creative Source of the Arts: Poetry as Prophecy in a Negative Theological Key<\/a><\/p>\n

Apophatic Ignorance and its Applications<\/a><\/p>\n

Il sacro irriconoscibile: Universalit\u00e0 cognitiva tra scienza e discipline umanistiche<\/a><\/p>\n

review of collective volume Quel che Resta del Sacro<\/a> including this article<\/p>\n

Review of Donald Phillip Verene, The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies <\/em>(Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018) in American Academy of Religion forum: Reading Religion<\/em><\/a> The Philosophy of Literature – Reading Religion<\/a> (2019)<\/p>\n

Sacred Modes of Being in a Post-Secular World (Review of Andrew Hass, ed., on David Jasper<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness<\/a><\/p>\n

Muslim Traditions of Learned Ignorance: Apophatic Paths in Islam<\/a><\/p>\n

Apophatic Ignorance and its Applications<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ethical Import of (Negative) Theology in Intercultural Dialogue<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cosmopolitan Conviviality and Negative Theology: Europe\u2019s Vocation to Universalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable<\/a>\u00a0(pp. 89-99 of Conference Proceedings)<\/p>\n

Apophatic Ethics as an Alternative to Identity Politics, or How to Avoid Wokeism GUST Newsletter on Wokeism<\/a><\/p>\n

Not War, nor Peace: Are War and Peace Mutually Exclusive Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gender Fluidity in Don Quixote<\/em>: Its Metaphysical Implications <\/a><\/p>\n

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Thinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China: Apophatic Universalism<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(full text<\/a>)<\/p>\n

All or Nothing: Nature in Chinese Thought and the Apophatic Occident<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Globalism of Nature to the Universality of Thought: Bringing Universalist Ethics and Politics Back into Ecological Harmony by the Apophatic Way <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cNothingness and the Aspiration to Universality in the Poetic \u2018Making\u2019 of Sense: An Essay in Comparative East-West Poetics\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 link<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstructive Critical Theories and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition<\/a><\/p>\n

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Liberal Arts Education Worldwide Ltd. Inc. \u2013 The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n

Philosophical and Theological Interpretations of Literature<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Die Aufgabe der Literatur in der globalisierenden Welt, oder Begegnung mit dem Unvergleichbarem: Walter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 PDF – Die Aufgabe der Literatur – published article<\/a><\/p>\n

Einleitung: Sprache der Migration \u2013 Migration der Sprache. Sprachidentit\u00e4ten und transkulturelle Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung\u00a0\u00a0free download<\/a>\u00a0of volume<\/p>\n

Commencement Address: “Prolegomena to a Speculative Criticism of Literature”<\/a> in Annalecta Hermeneutica<\/em> 14\/2 (2022)<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Classical and Biblical Literature<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Virgil, History, Prophecy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prophecy as a Genre of Revelation and its Inspiration by Poetic Imagination<\/a><\/p>\n

On Doing the Truth in Time: The Aeneid<\/em>‘s Invention of Poetic Prophecy<\/a><\/p>\n

War and Tragedy and the Fate of the Secular: Virgil’s Secularization of Prophecy<\/a><\/p>\n

Sulla verit\u00e0 poetica che \u00e8 superiore alla storia: Porfireo e la critica filosofica della letteratura<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Bible as Literature to Literature as Theology: A Theological Reading of Genesis as a Theology Text<\/a><\/p>\n

HOMER\u2019S MUSINGS AND THE DIVINE MUSE: EPIC SONG AS INVENTION AND AS REVELATION. <\/a><\/p>\n

Sulla verit\u00e0 poetica che \u00e8 superiore alla Storia: Porfirio e la critica filosofica della letteratura<\/a><\/p>\n

Gospel as Personal Knowing:\u00a0Reflections on Not Just a Literary Genre<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prophecy as a genre of revelation: Synergisms of inspiration and imagination in the book of Isaiah<\/a><\/p>\n

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Writings and Revelation:\u00a0 Literary Theology in the Bible<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Medieval Literature and Dante <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Ethical Vision of Dante\u2019s “Paradiso” in Light of Levinas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A Theology of Human Encounter: Montemaggi\u2019s Professional-Personal Testament<\/a><\/p>\n

Dante\u2019s\u00a0Inferno<\/em> as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth <\/a><\/p>\n

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Dante\u2019s Address to the Reader and its Ontological Significance<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dante\u2019s \u2018New Life\u2019 and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dante\u2019s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Prophetic Voice and Vision in the Malebolge (Inferno XVIII-XXIII)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dante\u2019s Hermeneutic Complicity in Violence and Fraud in Inferno IX-XVII<\/a><\/p>\n

Dante\u2019s Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno IX<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Death and Damnation of Poetry in Inferno XXXI\u2013XXXIV: Ugolino and Narrative as an Instrument of Revenge.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso<\/a><\/p>\n

Letargo and the Argo: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition<\/a><\/p>\n

Note on Robert Pogue Harrison’s The Body of Beatrice
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Professional Dantology and the Human Significance of Dante Studies<\/a>
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Religion and Representation: Dante Studies After the Theological Turn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cChristliche Offenbarung mittels lyrische Dichtung: Dantes Vita nuova<\/em> und das Neue Testament\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Dante’s Theology and Contemporary Thought: Recovering Transcendence?<\/a><\/p>\n

Negative Theology and Theophany in Dante’s Paradiso<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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“Hamlet and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature”<\/a><\/p>\n

Phainomena<\/em>\u00a0special issue on Hermeneutics and Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

“Prophecy Eclipsed:\u00a0Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0as a Tragedy of Knowledge”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Core Texts in Conversation<\/em>, eds. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, David Sokolowski, and J. Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 149-154.<\/p>\n

\u201cHermeneutic Catastrophe in Racine: The Epistemological Predicament of 17th Century Tragedy,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Romanische Forschungen<\/em> 105 (1993): 315-31<\/p>\n

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On Nineteenth Century Literature: Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Mallarm\u00e9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“The Missing All”: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Apophatic Poetics<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol: Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0On Modern Poetry: Mallarm\u00e9, Joyce and Yeats, Pound and Eliot<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Revelation: Mallarm\u00e9 and the Negativity of Prophetic Revelation in Modern Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

Primordial Sacrifice, Typology and the Theological Vocation of Literature:\u00a0Extending Gian Balsamo\u2019s Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic<\/a><\/p>\n

Linguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition:\u00a0 The Case of Joyce\u2019s \u00a0\u2018Finnegans Wake\u2019
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The Dialectical Logic of Yeats\u2019s Byzantium Poems<\/a><\/p>\n

Modernist Re-makings of Prophetic Poetry by Pound and Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jab\u00e8s and Celan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Poetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Edmond Jab\u00e8s, or the Endless Self-Emptying of Language in the Name of God<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Apophatic Poetics of Edmond Jab\u00e8s and Paul Celan. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Literary and Aesthetic Theory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Symbol and Allegory in Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Apophatic Paths: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Aesthetics of Nothing<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New (Non-) Concept of Universality<\/a><\/p>\n

Canonicity, Creativity, and the Unlimited Revelation of Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

Canonicity, Creativity, and the Unlimited Revelation of Literature – Partial Answers<\/a><\/p>\n

“World Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace”<\/a><\/p>\n

Metaphor and the Making of Sense:\u00a0 The Contemporary Metaphor Renaissance<\/a>
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Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject: Freud, Ricoeur, Lacan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Involved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n

Involved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n

“Involved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities” in Humanities<\/em> 4\/4 (2015)<\/a><\/p>\n

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DOWNLOADS available from PhilPapers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publication Notices:<\/p>\n

“Dante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought”<\/a><\/p>\n

Blind Prophecy: Milton\u2019s Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante: A Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

On Doing the Truth in Time:\u00a0The\u00a0Aeneid<\/em>\u2019s Invention of Poetic Prophecy<\/a><\/p>\n

PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n

Scanned Articles
\n“The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness: <\/a>
\nA Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue”<\/a>
\nJournal of Religion<\/em> 88\/3 (2008): 365-392
\n“Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue:\u00a0A Negatively Theological Perspective”<\/a>
\nInternational Journal for the Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 47\/2 (2000): 65-86
\n“Apocalyptic Poetry Between Metaphysics and Negative Theology:\u00a0From Dante to Celan and Stevens”<\/a>
\n Literature and Belief<\/em> 19\/1,2 (1999): 261-284<\/p>\n

“Apophasis and the Turn of Philosophy to Religion: From Neoplatonic Negative Theology to<\/a>
\nPostmodern Negation of Theology”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion<\/em>, ed. Eugene Long,
\nSpecial issue of\u00a0International Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 60, numbers 1-3 (2006): 61-76<\/p>\n

“James Joyce and the Bible”<\/a>
\nThe Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature<\/em>, chapter 46
\nEds.\u00a0Christopher Rowland, Christine Joynes, Rebecca Lemon,Emma Masson,\u00a0Jonathan Roberts
\n(Oxford: Blackwell,\u00a02009), pp. 642-53,<\/p>\n

“Dante\u2019s Address to the Reader and its Ontological Significance”<\/a>
\nModern Language Notes<\/em> 109 (1994):\u00a0117-127<\/p>\n

“Le Nom de Dieu comme vanit\u00e9 du langage au fond de tout mot selon Edmond Jab\u00e8s”<\/a>
\n[“The Name of God\u00a0as the Vanity of\u00a0Language\u00a0in the Heart of Every Word”]
\ntrans. by Martine Prieto and Geoffrey Obin,
\nEdmond Jab\u00e8s\u00a0: L\u2019\u00e9closion des \u00e9nigmes<\/em>, pp. 249-260
\neds. Daniel Lan\u00e7on et Catherine Mayaux
\n(Vincennes: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007)
\n(Paris: Litt\u00e9rature Hors Fronti\u00e8res, 2008)<\/p>\n

“Edmond Jab\u00e8s, or the Endless Self-Emptying of Language in the Name of\u00a0God”<\/a>
\nLiterature and Theology<\/em> 22\/1 (2008): 1-17<\/p>\n

“Franz Rosenzweig and the Emergence of a Post-Secular Philosophy of the Unsayable”<\/a>
\nInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em> 58\/3 (2005): 161-180<\/p>\n

“Hermeneutics, Historicity, and Poetry as Theological Revelation in Dante\u2019sDivine Comedy<\/em>” <\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Art and Time,<\/em> ed.\u00a0Jan Lloyd Jones et al. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing,2007),
\npp. 39-56<\/p>\n

“Linguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition: <\/a>
\nThe Case of Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Finnegans Wake<\/em>“<\/a>
\nNeophilologus <\/em>90\/1 (2006): 155-172<\/p>\n

“Metaphor and the Making of Sense:\u00a0The Contemporary Metaphor Renaissance”<\/a>
\nPhilosophy and Rhetoric<\/em> 33\/2 (2000): 137-154.<\/p>\n

“Damascius. Of the Ineffable:\u00a0Aporetics of the Notion of an Absolute Principle”<\/a>
\nArion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics<\/em> 12\/1 (2004): 111-31.
\n(Introduction with original translation from the Greek of\u00a0De principiis<\/em>, Part I, cc 3-8)<\/p>\n

“Poetic Language, Apocalypse, and the Premises for Dialogue<\/a>
\nBetween a Secular West and Radical Islam”<\/a>
\nReconstructing Realities: Occident-Orient Engagements.<\/em>
\neds. Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Shanthini Pillai and Hafriza Burhanudeen
\n(Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Longman, 2007), pp. 41-52<\/p>\n

“Praising the Unsayable: An Apophatic Defense of Metaphysics<\/a>
\n Based on the Neoplatonic\u00a0Parmenides<\/em> Commentaries”<\/a>
\nEpoch\u00e9: A Journal for the History of Philosophy<\/em> 11\/1 (2006): 143-173<\/p>\n

“Primordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature:<\/a>
\n Extending Gian Balsamo\u2019s Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic”<\/a>
\nLiterature and Theology<\/em> 20\/3 (2006): 251-268<\/p>\n

“Prophecy Eclipsed:\u00a0Hamlet<\/em> as a Tragedy of Knowledge”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Core Texts in Conversation<\/em>, eds. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, David Sokolowski, and J. Scott Lee
\n(Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 149-154.<\/p>\n

“Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject:\u00a0Freud, Ricoeur, Lacan”<\/a>
\nDialogue:\u00a0The Canadian Philosophical Review<\/em> 38 (1998):\u00a065-81.<\/p>\n

“Literature as Liturgy and the Interpretive Revolution of Literary Criticism”<\/a>
\nPreface to Gian Balsamo,\u00a0Scriptural Poetics in Finnegans Wake<\/em>
\n(Lewisburg, New York: Edwin Mellin Press, 2002), pp. v-xiii<\/p>\n

“Scripture as Theophany in Dante\u2019s\u00a0Paradiso<\/em>\u2019\u2019<\/a>
\nReligion and Literature<\/em> 39\/2 (Spring 2007): 1-32
\n(2006 Annual Religion and Literature Lecture, University of Notre Dame)<\/p>\n

“The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New (Non-) Concept of Universality”<\/a>
\nNational Literatures in the Age of Globalization. The Issue of the Canon<\/em>
\n(University of Bucharest)<\/p>\n

“Figuralism,” “Albert the Great,” “Constantine,” “Israel,” “William II of Sicily”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0The Dante Encyclopedia<\/em> (New York-London: Garland Publishing, 2000),
\npp. 376-79, 11, 216-17, 524-525, 885-86.<\/p>\n

“The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values<\/a>
\nin Secular Modernity and Post-Secular Postmodernity”<\/a>
\nReligion and the Arts<\/em> 11\/2 (2007): 214-41<\/p>\n

“The Dialectical Logic of Yeats\u2019s Byzantium Poems”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Poetry Criticism<\/em>,vol. 51, ed. Carol Ullman (Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2004), pp. 146-52
\n[Reprinted from\u00a0Yeats-Eliot Review<\/em> 15, no. 3:\u00a023-32]<\/p>\n

“The Ethical Vision of Dante\u2019s\u00a0Paradiso<\/em> in Light of Levinas”<\/a>
\nComparative Literature<\/em> 59\/3 (2007): 209-227<\/p>\n

“The Ethical Posture of Anti-Colonial Discourse in Said and in Gandhi”<\/a>
\nJournal of Contemporary Thought <\/em>25 (Summer, 2007): 5-24<\/p>\n

“\u2019The Missing All\u2019: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Apophatic Poetics<\/a>”
\nChristianity and Literature<\/em> 58\/1 (2008): \u00a061-80<\/p>\n

“The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol:\u00a0Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity,<\/em> volume in Honor of Claude Pichois,
\ned Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40.<\/p>\n

“A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality.”
\n<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Imaginatio Creatrix<\/em>, ed. A.-T. Tymieniecka,\u00a0Analecta Husserliana<\/em>LXXXIII (2004): 65-83.<\/p>\n

“The Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante:<\/a>
\nA Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective”
\nIn\u00a0Medieval Readings of \u00a0Romans<\/em>, eds. William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, Brenda Dean Schildgen \u00a0(New York: T & T Clark International, 2007)., pp. 142-52<\/p>\n

“The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Post-Holocaust Poetry<\/a>
\nof Edmond Jab\u00e8s and Paul Celan”<\/a>
\nNew Literary History<\/em> 36\/4 (2005): 621-638<\/p>\n

“The Exodus Epic: Universalization of History Through Ritual”<\/a>
\nIn\u00a0Universality and History: The Foundations of Core<\/em>, ed. Don Thompson, Darrel Colson, and J.
\nScott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 59-70<\/p>\n

“Varieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature”<\/a>
\nPhilosophy and Literature <\/em>29\/2 (2005): 489-497<\/p>\n

“Virgil, History, and Prophecy<\/a>”
\nPhilosophy and Literature<\/em> 29 (2005): 73-88<\/p>\n

The Death and Damnation of Poetry in\u00a0Inferno <\/em>XXXI-XXXIV:
\nUgolino and Narrative as an Instrument of Revenge”<\/a>
\n Romance Studies<\/em>, Vol. 28 No. 1, January, 2010, 27\u201335<\/p>\n

“Sulla verit\u00e0 poetica che \u00e8 superiore alla Storia: Porfirio e la critica filosofica della letteratura”
\nEnthymema<\/em> 1 (2010) <\/a>
\n
\n<\/a>“The Canon Question and the Value of Theory: Towards a New (Non-) Concept of Universality”<\/a>
\nContents and Introduction<\/a> Publishers page<\/a>
\nInvolved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities<\/a>
\nProphecy as a genre of revelation and its inspiration by poetic imagination<\/a><\/p>\n

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