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Original title Le Différend Language French | 4/5 Goodreads Country France Originally published 1983 Subjects Ethics, Aesthetics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Translator Georges Van Den Abbeele Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Pages 232 (1988 University of Minnesota Press edition) Page count 232 (1988 University of Minnesota Press edition) Similar Jean-François Lyotard books, Postmodernism books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (French: Le Différend) is a 1983 book by Jean-François Lyotard.
Contents
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Summary
Lyotard reflects on how to make political and aesthetic judgments when there is no rule of judgment to which one can appeal, draws on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790) and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (1953), and further develops his own previous discussion of language games in The Postmodern Condition (1979) and Just Gaming (1979). The différend of his title is a dispute between two or more parties, which work within language games so different from each other that no consensus can be reached on principles that could govern how the dispute might be settled: for example, conflicting claims to land rights between aboriginal peoples and current residents. Différends defy resolution, but the just approach is to respect each side's competing claims. The Holocaust, modernity, ethics, history and politics are discussed by Lyotard in relation to the différend.
Scholarly reception
The Differend is considered Lyotard's most important work, and has been seen as providing the theoretical basis for much of his later work.