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Words fail theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation

Title
Words fail [electronic resource] : theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation / Colby Dickinson.
Author
Dickinson, Colby.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

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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
  • Celan, Paul > Interpretation and criticism
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- > Interpretation and criticism
  • Poetry
  • Representation (Philosophy) > In literature
  • Belief and doubt in literature
  • Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
  • Theology in literature
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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