Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823280261.003.0014
M. Rubenstein
This paper will serve as a response to the manuscripts in the volume with special attention to the consequences and prospects that its insights hold for the future of the continental philosophy of religion. Its specifics are to be determined.
本文将作为对该卷手稿的回应，特别关注其见解对大陆宗教哲学未来的影响和前景。具体细节有待确定。
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823280261.003.0007
T. Chanter
Just as Rancière challenges the absolute difference between politics and art, he resists the absolutization of the other that he sees as characteristic of the ethical turn in contemporary aesthetics. The tendency of Lyotard, however, remains turning alterity into the unrepresentable, the unassimilable, and the unthinkable. Its consequences are precisely what Rancière forebodes with the appropriation of the sublime: For all its talk of art witnessing that which is unrepresentable—and the holocaust as the unrepresentable per se—the ethical turn only manages to rejoin a discourse of purism. If everyone is traumatised, what specific meaning remains for trauma? This chapter explores the context of Rancière’s critique of Lyotard, particularly regarding the attenuation of any sense to trauma that accumulates a privileged status for its singular event; it subsequently interrogates the generalization of trauma to such an extent that one evacuates it of any significance.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823280261.003.0001
Eric Boynton, Peter Capretto
This introduction describes the challenge of how to think trauma in light of the field's burgeoning interdisciplinarity, and often its theoretical splintering. The introduction offers an overview of scholarship on trauma that has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, yet it has recently been rendered all the more complex by theoretical and methodological issues that have emerged for these disciplines in their attempts to think trauma. From distinctive disciplinary vectors, the introduction introduces the work of philosophers, social theorists, philosophical psychologists and theologians that considers the limits and prospects of theory when thinking trauma and transcendence, particularly as it relates to Continental Philosophy of Religion.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0012
M. Shoop
Though Christian Theology profess a God who inhabits flesh, bodies have been historically and systematically ignored and reviled by many institutional expressions of this faith tradition. Even as many core Christian institutions resist the Incarnational symmetry between embodied practice and Christian theological professions, bodies explore and embrace healing modalities at the margins of Christian practice. Using the emerging wisdom of four particular healing explorations along the margins of Christian institutional life, this chapter explores the contours of Christian spiritual practices that fold out of trauma. By focusing on the institutional practices of Kevin Ladd with labyrinths, Shelley Rambo with the Warriors Journey Home project, Sr. Joanna Walsh with trusting touch, and my own Wandering Home Retreat for women, this chapter attends to these contours with an eye toward possibilities for institutional transformation around trauma.
虽然基督教神学承认一个住在肉体中的上帝，但在历史上，身体一直被这种信仰传统的许多制度表达所系统地忽视和辱骂。即使许多核心的基督教机构抵制体现实践和基督教神学专业之间的道成肉身对称，身体在基督教实践的边缘探索和接受治疗模式。本章利用基督教制度生活边缘的四个特殊治疗探索的新兴智慧，探索了从创伤中折叠出来的基督教精神实践的轮廓。通过关注凯文·拉德(Kevin Ladd)的迷宫制度实践、雪莱·兰博(Shelley Rambo)的勇士之旅回家项目、乔安娜·沃尔什(Joanna Walsh)的信任触摸以及我自己的女性流浪家庭静修所(Wandering Home Retreat)的制度实践，本章关注这些框架，并着眼于围绕创伤进行制度转型的可能性。
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823280261.003.0011
S. Rambo
In “Theology and the Poetics of Testimony,” Rebecca Chopp forecasts the future of theology, suggesting that the rise of the new genre of testimony in contemporary culture requires significant shifts in modern theology--both in content and in form (Converging on Culture). First delivered as a lecture in 1997, this essay is both a forerunner in the area of trauma theology and in theopoetics. She predicts that trauma will become the context out of which theology is done, poetics will be its new form, and transcendence will be rewritten in the process. While many theologians recognize their work as situated within a “post-traumatic” context, poetics remains a more elusive challenge. This essay examines the connection between poetics and transcendence, in light of new trajectories of trauma studies and growing literatures in theopoetics.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0010
Peter Capretto
Trauma theorists have thoroughly named the impossibility of adequately witnessing to the traumatic experience of others. Yet the demand of trauma researchers to study and advocate on behalf of survivors leaves them in a double bind, wherein lowering the ethical standards of their social relation appears not only tempting, but necessary. Through examinations of Freud’s psychoanalytic understanding of the psychic economy of trauma and Heidegger’s phenomenological critique of the concept of lived experience, this chapter argues that trauma theorists in philosophy and religion must be attentive to the fetishization of the traumatic lived experience of others, specifically as a libidinal symptom of our inevitable failure to satisfy the impossible demands of witnessing. This more quotidian attention to our psychic motivation supplements the transcendent task of conceptually understanding the psychic exteriority of others in trauma, thereby elevating the ethical standards the continental philosophy of religion sets for social research into trauma.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0008
G. Yancy
This chapter theorizes racialization as an interstitial process. In the context of white supremacy, white privilege, and white power, whiteness functions as the transcendental norm that obfuscates its own racialization and normative constitution vis-à-vis Blackness, thereby marking the Black body within the socio-political matrix as “dangerous,” “evil,” “suspicious,” and “disposable.” It analyzes racialization as a site of trauma, a wounding, and a felt terror of both symbolic and existential annihilation. The experience of trauma thus is the result of a violation and violence that attempts to reduce Black people to a state of pure facticity, the very absence of transcendence, where Black alterity is reduced to the white racist imago. This paper contextualizes the historical backdrop of anti-Black racism through the examples of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and the author’s personal experience with racial hate speech. This demonstrates how the Black body has undergone a long and enduring history of racialized somatic trauma.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0005
Eric Boynton
A phenomenon with a lingering enigmatic quality, evil has, it seems, been “re-discovered” as a highly suggestive phenomenon today. Evil’s resurgence might be particularly relevant, highlighting lacunae in predominant tendencies of modern thought, specifically in recent attempts to commemorate historical trauma proliferating our genocidal age. This chapter examines the challenge of commemorating historical trauma and atrocity by considering the counter-monuments proposed and completed by the German installation artist, Horst Hoheisel. This study links Emmanuel Levinas’ work with Hoheisel’s constructions and trauma theory’s characterization of trauma as non-assimilable with recent philosophical considerations of evil and suffering in our genocidal age. In this light, Hoheisel’s attempt to bring to presence that which is essentially absent opens up an alternative approach to evil and trauma issuing from the perspective of absence and loss, thereby granting the failure of therapeutic techniques an ethical significance.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0006
E. Severson
Levinas utilizes the term “trauma” to refer to the pre-original unsettling of the auto-identification of the ego, a project that takes center stage in his final masterwork, Otherwise than Being. This chapter begins with some deliberations concerning the use of the term “trauma” to refer to this unsettling, particularly in light of contemporary psychological and medical uses of that term. Building from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Heidegger’s work on unconcealment, it argues that whereas for Heidegger and Plato trauma occurs through unconcealment of sensation, for Levinas trauma occurs as an interruption of sensation’s appropriation into perception itself. The chapter focuses principally on the event itself, the encounter with the other, which at times he calls “inspiration” instead of trauma, and the way this event occurs in a time-before-time that initiates the very possibility of responsibility.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280261.003.0009
R. Eyerman
Among other atrocities of the American war in Vietnam, the My Lai Massacre stands out as a clear illustration of the social pressure to individualize guilt and restrict any attempt to collectivize responsibility. With special attention to the traumatic character of this event, this chapter introduces and develops the notion of perpetrator trauma, which I define as a moral injury. I claim that perpetrator trauma occurs when individuals and collectives feel they have acted in ways contrary to deeply held moral beliefs. The essay contends that this encounter is rightly described as a trauma, in that it results from or in the shattering of identity, individual and/or collective. The mass murder of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai was cause for great public debate in the United States, wherein the idea of collective guilt and responsibility was central. I show way the attempt to responsibility was unsuccessful.
在美国越战的其他暴行中，美莱村大屠杀(My Lai Massacre)清楚地表明，社会压力要求将罪责个人化，并限制任何将责任集体化的尝试。本章特别关注这一事件的创伤性特征，介绍并发展了肇事者创伤的概念，我将其定义为一种道德伤害。我认为，当个人和集体感到他们的行为方式与根深蒂固的道德信仰背道而驰时，肇事者创伤就会发生。这篇文章认为，这种遭遇被正确地描述为一种创伤，因为它源于身份、个人和/或集体的破碎。美莱村对越南平民的大规模屠杀在美国引起了广泛的公众辩论，其中集体犯罪和责任的观念是核心。我表明试图承担责任是不成功的。
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