A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics

A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics

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This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Backpack Cloth Bag Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture.It essentially bears on Christianity and on literary imagination by valorizing their focus on the mystery of who we are beyond all divisive identities and on how an orientation to negative-theological transcendence can save Raw Seaweeds us from a toxic obsession with identities in a postmodern, postcolonial, post-gender society.