Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions

Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion

Ben-Ami Scharfstein

312 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction philosophy religion
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Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues tha...

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