- Description
- 1 online resource (114 pages)
- Summary
- "This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure" --
- Series Statement
- Perspectives in continental philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Words fail (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Words fail (Online)
- Theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-109) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The logic of the 'as if' and the (non)existence of God: an inquiry into the nature of belief -- Aesthetics among the metaphysical ruins: the poetry of Paul Celan seen through the works of Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- On language and its profanation: beyond representation in the poetic theory of Giorgio Agamben -- The spiritual and creative failures of representation, or on the art of writing.
- LCCN
- 2016014314
- OCLC
- ssj0001732218
- Author
Dickinson, Colby.
- Title
Words fail [electronic resource] : theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation / Colby Dickinson.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Perspectives in continental philosophy
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-109) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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