Words Fail : : Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation / / Colby Dickinson.
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-...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Table of 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