Words fail : theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation / Colby Dickinson.

Author
Dickinson, Colby [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
114 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Perspectives in continental philosophy [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "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"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-109) and index.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Theology, poetry, and the challenge of representation
    ISBN
    • 9780823272839 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823272834 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780823272846 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823272842 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016014314
    OCLC
    941875334
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