TY - BOOK AU - Dickinson,Colby TI - Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation T2 - Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series SN - 9780823272860 AV - PN1077.D535 2017 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Poetry KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4803730 ER -