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

by Colby Dickinson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823272834
• ISBN13: 9780823272839
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"