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Show tott Hearty ¦ -- The Princess and The Pitchfork Brtnda Grant (Francois Camoin} Department of English K- ¦ ^ Is discovered by men and a dragon at 1 he same Ime. while mesmerized by the night In ¦¦- ¦¦ . i - dilfches, escaping the dragon mlghc be more 1han she Is up co. A childhood Mend cchjIc become morelo henhan|us1 a Friend Enjoy the small things in hFeand the bgih mg swill take care of themselves The God Beyond God: Gnosticism and Negative Theology Matt Hearty (Brian Kubaryczl Honors Program In 1663 when Frledrkh Nleizsche proclaimed thedeach of Gcd liewas accurately Bsedng tfie n. . bankrupicyoFche modernage_ Nietzschesnlhlhrsmwbs adcpied and deuebpfld in oncologicalterm^ by-Man in Heidegger and ocher 20th century phibsophert who soughcco reconcile the culm rail prdnc-unce-mefflof MS&diewTthi edstenclallM phik>Eophy fta reailized by Heriegger and hla pupil HanaJonai^Oth century phifc^ophical perspecuve? on negari me cheolcgy find their origins In the Cno&ic concept of alienation, vitilcii wat similarly expressed in neo-placonlam amd medieval Christian rrryHlcrsm Beginning wrth Dkirrysl ui the Areop- mystics h q i ¦ rnoue awary From 1 he # <i nega^r^a, orclastcal ¦"> mocfe of cfeKftlng of a complete ne^tlon of Belnc> vitilc h euen bnguage It I nadeq uate to BipreH. Being, In thlt context, to the ground of all partfciMar exi^ernie. and A[>ophasltls defined at l he arrempx co describe &d in purely ne^tlve termt-l*. what &d r not. The philc-sophlcahrahdltlonoFne^rive thedc^y which originated wrth the Cnotics and Neo-placonlst&or«r1y Chrrstlamny has retuifftied in mcdern clmes under che banner of nihilism. The work of Hant^onas piovdesa u^-rul Framework for 1 racing the development cf ancjenc negative theology co che more recent GkJ is Lead cheol ^gy. There are close det between 1 he Grwmc sysiem of beljef and che existential thought of Heriegger Jonars^ workestaHrshes an Imporcami connection beiween ancent esoteric religion and modern exlMentlaIIhoughr Furiher, JonatpfovKfet a nexus beiween the apophaclccradrtkin and the modem negative theofc^v of chlnkert Mj» AHlzer and CferrkJa DerrK^^ search for a cranscencfental slgnlfter reflects l he attempt In clarsskal negative cheokxpy to arrive at a corredexpfetslonoF che uftlmarie reail through negation and absence This final point jnderKores the importance of negative theokgy IntheaeMhetlc, social, and polrclcal KCfie of post-modern studies. |