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Author Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998, author.

Uniform Title Différend. English
Title The differend : phrases in dispute / Jean-François Lyotard ; translation by Georges Van Den Abbeele.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1988]
©1988

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 Axe Special Collections Reitz  190 L995d 1988    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xvi, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
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Series Theory and history of literature ; volume 46
Theory and history of literature ; v. 46.
Language In English; translated from the French.
Note Translation of: Le différend.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and indexes.
Contents Preface : reading dossier -- The differend -- The referent, the name -- Presentation -- Result -- Obligation -- Genre, norm -- The sign of history -- Works cited.
Summary 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.
Subject Philosophy.
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Added Author Van den Abbeele, Georges, translator.
Translation of (work): Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998. Différend.
ISBN 9780816616114 (pbk.)
0816616116 (pbk.)
9780816616107
0816616108

 
    
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