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The dimension of not knowing

April 7, 2011

I’m teaching the first session of my “Psychology of Transformative Learning” course for graduate students at Meridian tomorrow. So in honor of that, thought I’d provide a quote from Derrida. Enjoy.

Language is an intrinsically unreliable structure for communication. Real meaning exists in a dimension that transcends reason and language. It is a ‘dimension of not-knowing’ and this domain of not-knowing is the appropriate domain for true education. Creativity and transformation require entering that dimension – going beyond language and reason and finding the common ground between all living things from which real creativity and profound transformation emerge.

—Jacques Derrida

That’s where I like to play.

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