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

Colby Dickinson

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

Words Fail

Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation

Colby Dickinson

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823272860

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Dickinson Colby :

Colby Dickinson is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago.

Reviews

—Adam Kotsko:
“Colby Dickinson provides us with a compelling meditation on the complex relationship between poetry, philosophy, and religion. He not only illuminates Derrida and Agamben’s engagement with poetry but allows poetry to talk back to philosophy—and invites the reader to reconsider what is at stake every time we sit down to write.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Logic of the “As If ” and the (Non)existence of God An Inquiry into the Nature of Belief Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Aesthetics among the Metaphysical Ruins Th e Poetry of Paul Celan Seen through the Works of Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. On Language and Its Profanation Beyond Representation in the Poetic Theory of Giorgio Agamben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Conclusion. The Spiritual and Creative Failures of Representation, or On the Art of Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 136
Keywords: Poetics; Paul Celan; Jacques Derrida; Giorgio Agamben; Representation; Spirituality; Theology; Philosophy; Failure; Identity

eBook

Published: October 3, 2016
ISBN: 9780823272860