Graduate Student, School of Religion
Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Thesis Title: Embracing the Apophatic: The Active Negation of Positivity and Constructive Negativity
Roland Faber
Ingolf Dalferth
Richard Amesbury
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Deena Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy of Religion and Theology program at Claremont Graduate University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of San Francisco in 2000, and her M.A. in Religious Studies at Claremont Graduate University in 2007.
Her research interests are in philosophical theology, poststructuralist thought, mystical theology and identity politics. For her dissertation, she is focusing on the “active negation of positivity” and “positing negativity” that takes place within the poststructuralist works of Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, and Judith Butler, as well as in the mysticism of Nicholas of Cusa and Meister Eckhart. By focusing on an apophatic move taking place in their work, she will promote an active move beyond mere negativity. This move exemplifies a positivity that is dynamic and porous, and allows for the negative to enter in and assert a greater positivity that actively disturbs theology and identity constructs in general.
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