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Videogame consumption: The apophatic dimension [PDF]
Journal of Consumer Culture, 2016 This article applies psychological-sociological accounts of the ‘apophatic’, a form of negative thinking, to examples of gaming practices to conceptualise a new theory of videogame consumption. It challenges the prevailing notion that the games consumer is always a ‘cataphatic’ thinker – that is, an activistic, rational-pleasure seeker – and looks to ...
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Convergence of Dao with the Apophatism [PDF]
Postmodern Openings, 2018 This study is on the ontological axis of philosophy. Dao and apophatism are two nuclear and irradiant concepts of Eastern and Western thinking. The present study, by their explicative and comprehensive deconstruction, argues in favor of their convergence towards the ineffable philosophical direction and towards the convergence of Western thinking with ...
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Ideas and Ideals, 2020 The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Plotinus’s apophatic theology. The problem of the limit of human cognition has always been topical in the history of the human thought. The absolute reality acted as such a limit in Platonism. The apophatic aspect was the final step of its cognition.
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Science in the Apophatic Horizon
Philosophical anthropology, 2019 Pavel Gurevich, Elvira Spirova
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The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, Negation
2021This essay aims at offering a novel interpretation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s and Maurice Blanchot’s by now classic texts on community by interrogating them through the lens of the logic and rhetoric of apophatic mysticism. It is claimed that, in both thinkers, the apophatic strategy signals the necessity to rethink community non-dialectically and, more ...
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Is an Apophatic Trinitarianism Possible?
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2010AbstractA good deal of recent theology has been characterized by a robust, self‐confident trinitarianism. Is it possible, by contrast, to develop something like an apophatic trinitarianism? This article attempts to sketch what such a thing might look like and defend it against some obvious objections.
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Developing an Apophatic Christocentrism
Theology Today, 2003A thoroughly apophatic commitment to divine unknowability appears incompatible with the claim that God is known in Christ. The theological writings of Maximus the Confessor, however, provide a way of combining these two theological imperatives so that the more authentically apophatic one is, the more christocentric one will be (and vice versa).
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