Colby Dickinson, Words Fail: Theology, poetry and the challenge of representation

Continental Philosophy Review 54 (3):387-391 (2021)
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Words Fail offers a numbers of formulations concerning representation which are never developed into a sustained argument. The book also fails to account reliably for the thought of the three thinkers the author proposes to address. In particular, despite claiming to draw on the work of Jacques Derrida, Dickinson speaks quite remarkably of “true presence” and “pure presentation.”

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10.1007/s11007-021-09541-0

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