Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.
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Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.
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Very Good. First Printing with full number line. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good; minor wear to edges of wraps; light foxing to front edge of page block. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0791413470. KB41...xix, 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, index of names. Foreword by Frank E. Reynolds. Octavo. Grey hard cover with blue and white panels, clean and unmarked, interior also clean and fresh. Paper a little age-toned, otherwise crisp and nice. Good copy.; Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 291 pages.
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