The Differend
Phrases in Dispute (Theory & History of Literature S.)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
ISBN: | 9780816616114 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Published: | 31 December, 1988 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
The Differend
Phrases in Dispute (Theory & History of Literature S.)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.
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