{"product_id":"words-fail-9780823272839","title":"Words Fail","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- -Adam Kotsko Shimer College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction      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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406145757527,"sku":"9780823272839","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823272839.jpg?v=1730494684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/words-fail-9780823272839","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}