Trauma and Transcendence

Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Afterword By)Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she is also core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in the Science in Society Program.Eric Boynton (Edited By)Eric Boynton is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Allegheny College.Peter Capretto (Edited By)Peter Capretto is Fellow in Theology and Practice at Vanderbilt University in Religion, Psychology, and Culture.

This volume gathers scholars in philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma and transcendence inlight of the interdisciplinary character of the field of Trauma Studies and its splintering across the multiple theoretical approaches.

AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Limits of Theory in Trauma and TranscendenceEric Boynton and Peter CaprettoConstructive Phenomenologies of Trauma1. Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma TheoriesVincenzo Di Nicola2. Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional TraumaRobert D. Stolorow3. Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other¿s KeeperDonna Orange4. Evil, Trauma, and the Building of AbsencesEric Boynton5. The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic TraumaEric SeversonSocial and Political Analyses of Traumatic Experience6. The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière¿s Critique of LyotardTina Chanter7. Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White ImaginaryGeorge Yancy8. Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My LaiRonald Eyerman9. The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived ExperiencePeter CaprettoTheological Aporia in the Aftermath of Trauma10. Theopoetics of TraumaShelly Rambo11. Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Traumäs WakeMarcia Mount Shoop12. Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the CrossHilary Jerome ScarsellaProspects13. Prospects of Trauma for the Philosophy of ReligionMary-Jane RubensteinNotesBibliographyIndex