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  • Božja imena po Dioniziju
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    In his text "Comment ne pas parler: Dénégations", Jacques Derrida treats Dionysius as the founder of apophatic theology which, in a series of negations, denies to God everything that is generally ... attributed to beings. According to Derrida, this process does not conclude with transcending all assertions about God but goes on to deny the denial itself. This de-denial finally reveals the negative movement of language to be a hyperbolic movement, one which asserts beyond denial, thus releasing "over-being", "being beyond being". But the treatment of divine names in Dionysius' treatise Celestial Hierarchy suggests that the bearer of the negative charge in speaking about God need not be the explicit negation focused upon by Derrida: it may as well be a poetic portrayal, a metaphor, such as the names given to God by scriptural writers. According to Dionysius, the name of God acquires a negative charge, absent by itself, through the proper understanding of a name metaphor as an "unlike likeness". The negative linguistic factor is thus neither a beginning nor a potential (supra)ontological positivity of Dionysius' mysticism. It is conveyed hermeneutically, through a mystagogy which starts from the prelinguistic and supralinguistic experience of God as mystery.
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2011
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 47702882