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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickinson, Colby (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The logic of the 'as if' and the (non)existence of God: an inquiry into the nature of belief
  • 2. Aesthetics among the metaphysical ruins: the poetry of Paul Celan seen through the works of Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
  • 3. On language and its profanation: beyond representation in the poetic theory of Giorgio Agamben
  • Conclusion: The spiritual and creative failures of representation, or on the art of writing.