The differend : phrases in dispute
Jean-François Lyotard (Author), Georges Van den Abbeele (Translator)
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
Print Book, English, 1988
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988