William Franke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 461992 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Franke |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Franke |
| ASSINATURA | FRANKE W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1309-9145 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Plato's Apophatic Legacy and the Unwritten Doctrines (I)
Pages 33-54 ; 24 cm
Plato's Apophatic Legacy and the Unwritten Doctrines (I)
Plato's Apophatic Legacy and the Unwritten Doctrines (II)
Plato's Apophatic Legacy and the Unwritten Doctrines (II)
Pages 55-82 ; 24 cm
The Death of God as Source of the Creativity of Humans
Although declarations of the death of God seem to be provocations announcing the end of the era of theology, this announcement is actually central to the Christian revelation in its most classic forms, as well as to its reworkings in contemporary religious thought. Indeed provocative new possibilities for thinking theologically open up precisely in the wake of the death of God. Already Hegel envisaged a revolutionary new realization of divinity e…
Dantologies
This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have decisively impacted this field, but Dante also has a strong relationship with theology. The idea that theology, teleology, and logocentric rationalities are simply overcome and swept away by new theoretical approaches proves much more complex as the t…
Dante’s theology and contemporary thought
This article outlines how Dante’s philosophy and theology turn on issues that are being debated in broader philosophical, theological, and theoretical milieus today. It emphasizes, in particular, how the new horizon opened by certain postmodern—and more specifically post-secular—turns in philosophy shifts the light falling on the interface between the concepts of transcendence and immanence. As a result, Dante’s attempt, in the twilight of the Mi…
Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought
Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already with the Troubadours. The ever more intense self-reflexivity that has led to our contemporary secular world and its technological a…
A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics
This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture. It essentially bears on Christianity and on literary imagination by valorizing their focus on the mystery of who we are beyond all divisive identities and on how an orientation to negative-theological transcendence can save us from a tox…
Religion and Representation
The very wide-ranging issues haunting the interface between religion and representation play themselves out with redoubled intensity in the specific field of Dante studies, to which each of the books reviewed this year is related. The relation varies from case to case: although all are books about Dante, their disciplinary matrices vary widely—from Italian studies to English literary history and from continental theory to theological criticism. A…
Religion and Representation
In recent years the topic of religion and representation has generated a great deal of scholarly interest. Given the capaciousness of the material, it helps to draw attention to those representative works which have appeared in the most advanced fields across Europe, the United States, and Asia. This review traces the emergence of idiosyncratic discussions of religion and representation in the domains of contemporary theology, critical theory, an…
"The Negative Theology of Wallace Stevens's "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
The supreme fiction is the one that cannot be said or represented at all. Like a negative theologian; Stevens starts from a position of critical reflection that can no longer naively believe in the myths of the gods. They have become fiction rather than revelation. And yet this supreme fiction; now become nameless; nevertheless animates all his desire: "For what; except for you; do I feel love?" These myths or fictions bring him peace of mind in …
Nothingness and the aspiration to universality in the poetic ‘making’ of sense
As a contribution to comparative East-West poetics, this essay descries a common resource of Western and classical Chinese literatures in certain “apophatic” modes of thought and discourse that are oriented to what cannot be said, to what is manifest only in and through a certain evasion and defiance of all efforts to verbalize and conceptualize it. This argument is developed in critical counterpoint with the work of interpreting Chinese classica…
Learned ignorance
Ignorance has been consciously cultivated as the most fecund moment in the whole process of encountering and relating to an order of beings that transcends the instrumental order of objects known only in terms of their usefulness for human purposes and projects. In the midst of this history, a central and exemplary paradigm of the apophatic mode of thought and discourse is the “learned ignorance” that Nicolaus of Cusa brought to focus and rendere…
Secular Scriptures
Involved Knowing
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, as well as on the Latin rhetorical tradition and on Greek paideia, this essay presents humanities knowledge as “involved knowing”. Science, in principle, abstracts from the subjective, psychological conditions of knowing, including its emotional and willful det…
Acknowledging Unknowing
Acknowledging Unknowing:Stanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature William Franke Stanley Cavell, in Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare, proposes “an epistemological reading of Shakespearean tragedy.”1 In fact, the essays gathered together in this volume hail from other works by Cavell revolving around epistemological questions. The book’s introduction insists on the embeddedness of Cavell’s Shakespeare interpreta…
Gospel as Personal Knowing
The Gospel is taken here as a model of the type of personal knowing and witness that gives its peculiar status to knowledge in the humanities. The Gospel according to Matthew is viewed in comparison with the other canonical Gospels in order to bring out its peculiar slant, particularly the way it reads Jesus’s life retrospectively in the light of Easter. This is especially apt for bringing out the way that the Gospel story is made to serve as a n…
The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso
There is an obvious paradox in any attempt to map the topography of Paradise, for Paradise, theologians assure us, is outside of space as well as time. Yet mapping Paradise is what Dante's poem, the Paradiso, attempts to do. For the two preceding realms of the afterlife, hell and purgatory, Dante provides numerous finely articulated descriptions of rigorously ordered regions. And again for Paradise, the variegated states of the souls making up th…
Apophatic paths
Dante's 'New Life' and the New Testament
(2011). Dante's 'New Life' and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation. The Italianist: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 335-366
Prophecy as a genre of revelation
This essay attempts to reconceptualize prophecy in the wake of the recent theological turn in phenomenology. It stresses how prophecy continues and intensifies the process of actualizing revelation in present acts of interpretation that mythic and historical imagination in their different ways inaugurate in biblical tradition. Revelation in this sense turns on the present dimension of the interpreters' lived experience, in which the event of reve…
Involved Knowing
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, as well as on the Latin rhetorical tradition and on Greek paideia, this essay presents humanities knowledge as “involved knowing.” Science, in principle, abstracts from the subjective, psychological conditions of knowing, including its emotional and willful det…
A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue
On What Cannot Be Said
The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity
Although declarations of the death of God seem to be provocations announcing the end of the era of theology, this announcement is actually central to the Christian revelation in its most classic forms, as well as to its reworkings in contemporary religious thought. Indeed provocative new possibilities for thinking theologically open up precisely in the wake of the death of God. Already Hegel envisaged a revolutionary new realization of divinity e…
"The Negative Theology of Wallace Stevens's "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
The supreme fiction is the one that cannot be said or represented at all. Like a negative theologian; Stevens starts from a position of critical reflection that can no longer naively believe in the myths of the gods. They have become fiction rather than revelation. And yet this supreme fiction; now become nameless; nevertheless animates all his desire: "For what; except for you; do I feel love?" These myths or fictions bring him peace of mind in …
Gospel as Personal Knowing
The Gospel is taken here as a model of the type of personal knowing and witness that gives its peculiar status to knowledge in the humanities. The Gospel according to Matthew is viewed in comparison with the other canonical Gospels in order to bring out its peculiar slant, particularly the way it reads Jesus’s life retrospectively in the light of Easter. This is especially apt for bringing out the way that the Gospel story is made to serve as a n…
Involved Knowing
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, as well as on the Latin rhetorical tradition and on Greek paideia, this essay presents humanities knowledge as “involved knowing.” Science, in principle, abstracts from the subjective, psychological conditions of knowing, including its emotional and willful det…
The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Apophatic Poetics of Edmond Jabes and Paul Celan
Postmodern writers and artists of all sorts have evolved radical new poetics based preeminently on the secret resources of silence. Poets have focused particularly on silences become audible in the tearing of language and the rending of sense. To a significant degree, this is a rediscovery of the oftentimes repressed resources in Western tradition of apophatic discourse, discourse on what cannot be said. Jewish writers have been particularly impo…
Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject
La connaissance herméneutique est généralement définie comme un savoir engagé, par opposition au savoir détaché que produit la méthode scientifique. La tension entre ces deux modèles dans la théorie psychanalytique de Freud est ici mise en évidence avec l'aide de Ricœur: cette théorie interprète des intentions conscientes, mais explique en même temps la vie psychique d'une façon mécaniste en termes depulsions somatiques. On montre ensuite comment…
Dante's Address to the Reader and its Ontological Significance
The way he addresses his reader distinguishes Dante's style as poet. Frequently recurring vocatives in the name of the lettore enframe the whole poem within the event of its being read. Some of these addresses are directives claiming to guide the reader's understanding of, participation in, or judgment upon whatever is in the narrative which they metanarratologically trump. Others are low-key asides, which nevertheless serve as reminders of the s…
Dante's Interpretive Journey
Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of the Subject
La connaissance herméneutique est généralement définie comme un savoir engagé, par opposition au savoir détaché que produit la méthode scientifique. La tension entre ces deux modèles dans la théorie psychanalytique de Freud est ici mise en évidence avec l'aide de Ricœur: cette théorie interprète des intentions conscientes, mais explique en même temps la vie psychique d'une façon mécaniste en termes depulsions somatiques. On montre ensuite comment…
Passage through Hell
Dante's Aesthetics of Being . Warren Ginsberg
The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Apophatic Poetics of Edmond Jabes and Paul Celan
Postmodern writers and artists of all sorts have evolved radical new poetics based preeminently on the secret resources of silence. Poets have focused particularly on silences become audible in the tearing of language and the rending of sense. To a significant degree, this is a rediscovery of the oftentimes repressed resources in Western tradition of apophatic discourse, discourse on what cannot be said. Jewish writers have been particularly impo…
On What Cannot Be Said
The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity
Although declarations of the death of God seem to be provocations announcing the end of the era of theology, this announcement is actually central to the Christian revelation in its most classic forms, as well as to its reworkings in contemporary religious thought. Indeed provocative new possibilities for thinking theologically open up precisely in the wake of the death of God. Already Hegel envisaged a revolutionary new realization of divinity e…
A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue
Dante's 'New Life' and the New Testament
(2011). Dante's 'New Life' and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation. The Italianist: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 335-366
Prophecy as a genre of revelation
This essay attempts to reconceptualize prophecy in the wake of the recent theological turn in phenomenology. It stresses how prophecy continues and intensifies the process of actualizing revelation in present acts of interpretation that mythic and historical imagination in their different ways inaugurate in biblical tradition. Revelation in this sense turns on the present dimension of the interpreters' lived experience, in which the event of reve…
Involved Knowing
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, as well as on the Latin rhetorical tradition and on Greek paideia, this essay presents humanities knowledge as “involved knowing.” Science, in principle, abstracts from the subjective, psychological conditions of knowing, including its emotional and willful det…
Gospel as Personal Knowing
The Gospel is taken here as a model of the type of personal knowing and witness that gives its peculiar status to knowledge in the humanities. The Gospel according to Matthew is viewed in comparison with the other canonical Gospels in order to bring out its peculiar slant, particularly the way it reads Jesus’s life retrospectively in the light of Easter. This is especially apt for bringing out the way that the Gospel story is made to serve as a n…
The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso
There is an obvious paradox in any attempt to map the topography of Paradise, for Paradise, theologians assure us, is outside of space as well as time. Yet mapping Paradise is what Dante's poem, the Paradiso, attempts to do. For the two preceding realms of the afterlife, hell and purgatory, Dante provides numerous finely articulated descriptions of rigorously ordered regions. And again for Paradise, the variegated states of the souls making up th…
Apophatic paths
Learned ignorance
Ignorance has been consciously cultivated as the most fecund moment in the whole process of encountering and relating to an order of beings that transcends the instrumental order of objects known only in terms of their usefulness for human purposes and projects. In the midst of this history, a central and exemplary paradigm of the apophatic mode of thought and discourse is the “learned ignorance” that Nicolaus of Cusa brought to focus and rendere…
Secular Scriptures
Involved Knowing
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, as well as on the Latin rhetorical tradition and on Greek paideia, this essay presents humanities knowledge as “involved knowing”. Science, in principle, abstracts from the subjective, psychological conditions of knowing, including its emotional and willful det…
Acknowledging Unknowing
Acknowledging Unknowing:Stanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature William Franke Stanley Cavell, in Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare, proposes “an epistemological reading of Shakespearean tragedy.”1 In fact, the essays gathered together in this volume hail from other works by Cavell revolving around epistemological questions. The book’s introduction insists on the embeddedness of Cavell’s Shakespeare interpreta…
Nothingness and the aspiration to universality in the poetic ‘making’ of sense
As a contribution to comparative East-West poetics, this essay descries a common resource of Western and classical Chinese literatures in certain “apophatic” modes of thought and discourse that are oriented to what cannot be said, to what is manifest only in and through a certain evasion and defiance of all efforts to verbalize and conceptualize it. This argument is developed in critical counterpoint with the work of interpreting Chinese classica…
Religion and Representation
In recent years the topic of religion and representation has generated a great deal of scholarly interest. Given the capaciousness of the material, it helps to draw attention to those representative works which have appeared in the most advanced fields across Europe, the United States, and Asia. This review traces the emergence of idiosyncratic discussions of religion and representation in the domains of contemporary theology, critical theory, an…
"The Negative Theology of Wallace Stevens's "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
The supreme fiction is the one that cannot be said or represented at all. Like a negative theologian; Stevens starts from a position of critical reflection that can no longer naively believe in the myths of the gods. They have become fiction rather than revelation. And yet this supreme fiction; now become nameless; nevertheless animates all his desire: "For what; except for you; do I feel love?" These myths or fictions bring him peace of mind in …
Religion and Representation
The very wide-ranging issues haunting the interface between religion and representation play themselves out with redoubled intensity in the specific field of Dante studies, to which each of the books reviewed this year is related. The relation varies from case to case: although all are books about Dante, their disciplinary matrices vary widely—from Italian studies to English literary history and from continental theory to theological criticism. A…
A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics
This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture. It essentially bears on Christianity and on literary imagination by valorizing their focus on the mystery of who we are beyond all divisive identities and on how an orientation to negative-theological transcendence can save us from a tox…
Dante’s theology and contemporary thought
This article outlines how Dante’s philosophy and theology turn on issues that are being debated in broader philosophical, theological, and theoretical milieus today. It emphasizes, in particular, how the new horizon opened by certain postmodern—and more specifically post-secular—turns in philosophy shifts the light falling on the interface between the concepts of transcendence and immanence. As a result, Dante’s attempt, in the twilight of the Mi…
Philosophy (23 obras) · Art (17 obras) · Epistemology (14 obras) · Literature (14 obras) · Theology (12 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Poetry (8 obras) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)