Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion

by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791413489
• ISBN13: 9780791413487
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"