Ineffability - The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion

Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.

About the author

Ben-Ami Scharfstein is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of eleven books, including Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism and Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion, both published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Ben-Ami Scharfstein
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1993
• EAN: 9780791413470
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1347-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Studies in Neoplatonism; Studies in Neoplatonism; Suny Series, Toward a Comparat
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous