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Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies disciplinary ownership. While this research has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself, trauma theory now faces theoretical and methodological obstacles given its growing interdisciplinarity. Trauma and Transcendence gathers scholars in philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, and social theory to engage the limits and prospects of trauma’s transcendence. This volume draws attention to the increasing challenge of deciding whether trauma’s unassimilable quality can be wielded as a defense of traumatic experience against reductionism, or whether it succumbs to a form of obscurantism.
Contributors: Eric Boynton, Peter Capretto, Tina Chanter, Vincenzo Di Nicola, Ronald Eyerman, Donna Orange, Shelly Rambo, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Eric Severson, Marcia Mount Shoop, Robert D. Stolorow, George Yancy.
In this diverse collection, Boynton and Capretto bring together thinkers from a range of disciplines in order to explore the contributions of particular disciplines to trauma studies and the limits of those contributions. This sort of intentionally interdisciplinary conversation is rare in trauma studies literature, so in that respect this book makes a significant contribution.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence
Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto
Constructive Phenomenologies of Trauma
1. Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma Theories
Vincenzo Di Nicola
2. Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional Trauma
Robert D. Stolorow
3. Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other’s Keeper
Donna Orange
4. Evil, Trauma, and the Building of Absences
Eric Boynton
5. The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic Trauma
Eric Severson
Social and Political Analyses of Traumatic Experience
6. The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard
Tina Chanter
7. Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary
George Yancy
8. Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My Lai
Ronald Eyerman
9. The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived Experience
Peter Capretto
Theological Aporia in the Aftermath of Trauma
10. Theopoetics of Trauma
Shelly Rambo
11. Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake
Marcia Mount Shoop
12. Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
Prospects
13. Prospects of Trauma for the Philosophy of Religion
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Notes
Bibliography
Index