Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816616114
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.