Trauma and Transcendence

Trauma and Transcendence

Suffering and the Limits of Theory

  • Author: Boynton, Eric; Capretto, Peter; Rubenstein, Mary-Jane
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823280261
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823280292
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823280285
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of publication: 2018
  • Year of digital publication: 2018
  • Month: August
  • Language: English

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.

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  • TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE
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  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: The Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence
  • Part I CONSTRUCTIVE PHENOMENOLOGIES OF TRAUMA
    • 1. Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma Theories
    • 2. Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional Trauma
    • 3. Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other’s Keeper
    • 4. Evil, Trauma, and the Building of Absences
    • 5. The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic Trauma
  • Part II SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSES OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
    • 6. The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard
    • 7. Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary
    • 8. Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My Lai
    • 9. The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived Experience
  • Part III THEOLOGICAL APORIA IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMA
    • 10. Theopoetics of Trauma
    • 11. Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake
    • 12. Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross
    • Afterword. The Transcendence of Trauma: Prospects for the Continental Philosophy of Religion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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