Trauma and Transcendence

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Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies disciplinary ownership. While this research has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, trauma theory now faces theoretical and methodological obstacles given its growing interdisciplinarity. Trauma and Transcendence gathers scholars in philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, and social theory to engage the limits and prospects of trauma's transcendence. This volume draws attention to the increasing challenge of deciding whether trauma's unassimilable quality can be wielded as a defense of traumatic experience against reductionism, or whether it succumbs to a form of obscurantism.Contributors: Eric Boynton, Peter Capretto, Tina Chanter, Vincenzo Di Nicola, Ronald Eyerman, Donna Orange, Shelly Rambo, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Eric Severson, Marcia Mount Shoop, Robert D. Stolorow, George Yancy.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Theology
• Structuralism
• Post-structuralism
• Deconstruction

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 07 août 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823280292
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Tr a u m a a n d Tr a n s c e n d e n c e

Trauma and Transcendence

Suffering and the Limits of Theory

Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto Editors Afterword by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

f o r d h a m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s New York 2018

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Introduction: The Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence eric boynton and peter capretto

Part Iconstructive phenomenologies of trauma Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma Theories vincenzo di nicola Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional Trauma robert d. stolorow Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other’s Keeper donna orange Evil, Trauma, and the Building of Absences eric boynton The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic Trauma eric severson

Part IIsocial and political analyses of traumatic experience The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard tina chanter Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary george yancy Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My Lai ronald eyerman

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The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived Experience peter capretto

Part IIItheological aporia in the aftermath of trauma Theopoetics of Trauma shelly rambo Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake marcia mount shoop Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross hilary jerome scarsella Afterword. The Transcendence of Trauma: Prospects for the Continental Philosophy of Religion mary-jane rubenstein

Acknowledgments Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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i n t r o d u c t i o n The Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence

Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto

Aporia and Intelligibility in Trauma Theory

Within the humanities, specifically in the past decade, trauma theory has become a robust site of interdisciplinary work. Trauma resonates with scholars in and across disciplines and has become a trope with a distinc- tive significance. Whereas philosophers and social theorists a generation ago drew almost exclusively upon classical trauma theory, derivative of the psychological and psychoanalytic traditions, recent studies have rooted themselves in a more immediate past. Researchers now turn to many late 1 2 twentieth-century figures such as Jacques Derrida, Cathy Caruth, and 3 Judith Herman as touchstones for their own disciplinary insights. While this diaspora of theory has strengthened cultural and philosophical reflec- tions on a subject matter once dominated by psychiatry, it has also made trauma’s once unified subject matter variegated across disciplines, particu- larly in the humanities. Given the many confl icts among these disciplines and their methods, the very idea of trauma is becoming increasingly un- clear. The scope of scholarship on trauma has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, yet it

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