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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823272839
  • 9780823272860
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Logic of the "As If " and the (Non)existence of God -- 2. Aesthetics among the Metaphysical Ruins -- 3. On Language and Its Profanation -- Conclusion. The Spiritual and Creative Failures of Representation, or On the Art of Writing -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Logic of the "As If " and the (Non)existence of God -- 2. Aesthetics among the Metaphysical Ruins -- 3. On Language and Its Profanation -- Conclusion. The Spiritual and Creative Failures of Representation, or On the Art of Writing -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)