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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Silvia Jonas, âIneffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophyâ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Description: There is a long history in philosophy, art and religion of claims about the ineffable from The One in Plotinus to Kantâs noumena or thing-in-itself to Wittgensteinâs famous remark at the end of Tractatus that âwhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.â But even if the ineffable cannot, in some sense, be expressed, what can we say about what it is to be ineffable? What sorts of things are ineffable and what sense can be made of the claim that these things are ineffable?
In her new book, Ineffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeaka...