On the Universality of What Is Not by William Franke;

Author:William Franke; [Franke;, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780268108816
Publisher: LightningSource
Published: 2020-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

Jung consistently stresses the time lag between developmental possibilities and their reflective appropriation. The consciousness of semiotic contingency can be operative implicitly even in pre-theoretical narrative. He also stresses that the relation between embodiment and transcendence is particular in each Axial Age culture. As Charles Taylor shows, an expressivist anthropology is necessary for the felt, embodied aspects that are constitutive of meaning and that are functionally indispensable to symbolic communication. This level of communication cannot be rendered fully rational, and it escapes the grasp of the individual agent. Taylor, as we have seen, critiques the Axial Age’s individualistic exit from the natural and social embeddedness that is characteristic of the general and human good in early religions.

Nevertheless, in defense of Axial Age visions, we need also to recognize that lived experience in its immediacy can also return through reflection, and with redoubled emphasis. Thinking is itself a way of being and creates new immediacies of its own. New, artificial forms even of embodiment are produced, and social mediation is reintroduced at other, more complex levels. New, indirect modes of communication, moreover, reactivate direct referential modes. One of Taylor’s key examples (in A Secular Age, 146–58) of this is the way that Luther’s principle of sola scriptura disembeds divine revelation from its lived oral contexts and yet makes it bear in its immediacy on lived experience of individuals and their inner struggles (Bußkampf) in unprecedented ways.51 Once again, theology assumes a pioneering role historically in pointing to the decisiveness of what no actual historical discourse is able properly to articulate because theological discourse opens a new, inner dimension of transcendence.

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