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Words Fail : Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (132 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823272860
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Words FailLOC classification:
  • PN1077.D535 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
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.
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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