Resultado de búsqueda
The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (French: Le Différend) is a 1983 book by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.
- Jean François Lyotard
- 1983
Indeed, The Differend, arguable Lyotard’s most important statement to date, can be understood as a renewal of the sophistic (and specifically Gorgianic) view of invention. —
A wrong or injustice that arises because the discourse in which the wrong might be expressed does not exist. To put it another way, it is a wrong or injustice that arises because the prevailing or hegemonic discourse actively precludes the possibility of this wrong being expressed.
A differend is a case of conflict between parties that cannot be equitably resolved for lack of a rule of judgement applicable to both. In the case of a differend, the parties cannot agree on a rule or criterion by which their dispute might be decided.
22 de ago. de 2022 · Focussing on Lyotard’s text ‘The Differend’, I show how its conceptual framework and philosophy of language locates the cause of deep disagreement not in the epistemic realm, but in things which do not fully submit to epistemic evaluation: the radically incomplete and open nature of language, and our increasingly politically ...
- James Cartlidge
- jkcartlidge92@googlemail.com
The Differend, the Postmodern and Art. The concept of the differend is also crucial to Lyotard’s thinking on art and literature, and to the notion of the ‘postmodern’, a term that has been associated with his name since the 1979 publication of The Postmodern Condition.
This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.
