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

Informationen zum Autor Colby Dickinson Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Assistant Professor of Theology Colby ( Dickinson, Colby Dickinson
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780823272839
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7283-9
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day