Studies on the Ancient Armenian Version of Philo's Works

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18466-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Studies in Philo of Alexandria

The volume aims to introduce the studies on the Armenian version of Philo's writings, as well as being valuable for scholars who are not Armenologists. This corpus of ancient translations is of great importance to us not only because it has preserved works whose Greek originals have been lost, but it will also be of use for improving our knowledge regarding the reception of Philo's thought. The essays approach the subject from different perspectives - historical, hermeneutical, philological and linguistic - in order to provide an overview on current research issues, giving special attention to the fortune of Philo's works in Armenian Christianity.

Zielgruppe

Experts in Armenian Studies, as well as scholars of Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christian Studies, History of Religions and Philologists, especially those interested in the transmission of Greek texts through the languages of the Near-East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mancini Lombardi, Sara

Pontani, Paola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement

1 Introduction
Introductory Remarks
Silence as Indirect Discourse

2 Phenomenology and Silence
A Phenomenological Approach to Silence
Silence and the Origin of Language

3 Silence and Art
Mallarmé, Andreiyeff, and the Silence of Empty Spaces
John Cage and Silence
Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence

4 Music and Silence
Musical Interpretations of Silence after Cage
Silence and Music Theory
Making Music (and Silence) Together

5 Silence and Theological Matters
Silence and God
Kierkegaard and Silence
Holding Chaos at Bay

6 Silence and Creativity
Silence and the Creative Process
Repetition as a Creative Form of Silence
Bachelard and the Metaphysics of the Moment
Silence and Negative Space

7 Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Silence
The Flesh of the World
The Lived Body
Merleau-Ponty on Cézanne and Klee

8 Silence and Spirituality
Ad Reinhardt’s Black Paintings
Nagarjuna’s Doctrine of Emptiness
Derrida’s Deconstruction of Metaphysics
The Contrasting Roles for Silence in Nagarjuna and Derrida

9 Wittgenstein and Silence
Rules of Grammar
Seeing vs. Seeing As
Meaning vs. Intending
On Knowledge and Certainty
Describing Silence

10 Giacometti’s Repetitious Art
Subtractive Acts
Capturing the Mystery

11 Borges and Silence
“The Writing of the God”: Borges and Wittgenstein
Seeing the World sub specie aeterni

12 Heidegger and Silence
Dasein’s Experience of Unhiddenness
Art and Thinking
The Breakdown of Language
Keeping Silent

13 Beckett and Silence
Beckett’s Disruptive Nihilism
Husserl and Beckett
Bataille and Blanchot on Beckett and Silence

14 Kafka’s Appropriation of Silence
Kafka’s Uses of Silence
Blanchot on Kafka’s Silence

15 Silence and the Holocaust
Wiesel
Adorno
Celan
Heidegger’s Silence Concerning the Holocaust

16 Blanchot’s Absorption in Silence
Blanchot’s Immemorial Silence
Blanchot on the Silence of Mallarmé
Blanchot on Celan’s Poetics of Silence

17 Foucault on Silence as Discourse
Silence as a Form of Oppression
A Feminist Perspective on Ideological Silence
Foucault’s Archaeological Investigation

18 Concluding Remarks
Silence and the Limits of Language
Silence and the Limits of Conscious Intention
The Spiritual Force of Silence in Art and Psychology
Discourse and the Construction of Meaning Through Silence
Silence and the Unspeakable
The Dialogue of Speech and Silence
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pontani, Paola
Paola Pontani, Ph.D. in Armenian Studies (1995), is research fellow in Historical Linguistics at the Catholic University of Milano. Her main interests regard translation and inter-cultural communication. She has published papers on the Armenian versions of Philo's works related to these topics.

Mancini Lombardi, Sara
Sara Mancini Lombardi, Ph.D. (2004) in Armenian Studies (Catholic University of Milano). She has published papers on the Armenian translations of Greek texts, based upon textual, linguistic and hermeneutical aspects.