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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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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.