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Summary. In The Differend, based on Immanuel Kant 's views on the separation of Understanding, Judgment, and Reason, Lyotard identifies the moment in which language fails as the differend, and explains it as follows: "...the unstable state and instant of language wherein something which must be able to be put into phrases cannot yet ...
- Jean François Lyotard
- France
- 1983
- Le Différend
Hace 4 días · differend. 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.
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
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.
Jean-François Lyotard. Translated by Georges Van den Abbeele. “This work is of vital importance in a period when revisionism of all stripes attempts to rewrite, and often simply deny, the occurrence of historical and cultural events, i.e. in attempting to reconstruct ‘reality’ in the convenient names of ‘truth’ and ‘common sense ...
These four poles organize two axes: the semantic–referential axis (reference and meaning) and the axis of address (addressee and addressor). Rather than conceiving of individuals speaking sentences, Lyotard conceives of phrases as events taking place: ‘a phrase “happens”’ (The Differend, xii).
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.
