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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 ...
15 de may. de 2019 · The differend : phrases in dispute. by. Lyotard, Jean François. Publication date. 1988. Topics. Philosophy. Publisher. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.
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.
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.’” French Review.
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 ...
Lyotard presents various examples of the differend, the most important of which is Auschwitz. He uses the example of the revisionist historian Faurisson’s demands for proof of the Holocaust to show how the differend operates as a sort of double bind or “catch-22.”
110 Accesses. Abstract. Having now briefly examined the context of Lyotard’s work prior to the publication of The Differend, this chapter seeks to more thoroughly explore the book’s philosophical findings, particularly his concepts of the phrase, concatenation, the wrong, and most obviously the differend.
