Words Fail

Words Fail

Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation

  • Autor: Dickinson, Colby
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • Colección: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
  • ISBN: 9780823272846
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823272860
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823272853
  • Lugar de publicación:  New York , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2016
  • Año de publicación digital: 2016
  • Mes: Octubre
  • Idioma: Ingles

There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey the ongoing struggle of living in a highly fragmented world.

Alongside these thinkers, this book looks specifically at the form of spirituality that is given shape by this intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection—all of which offer rich suggestions about our spiritual nature.

  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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