Differend Lyotard. Apr 25 2014 Lyotards Le Diffrend was written in rponse to both The Postmodern Condition and to the early essays of Vidal-Naquet which attempted to reassert the power of actual lived history against the unimaginable absurdity of literary cant being used to obliterate the past. This divide is not merely a difference then but what Lyotard calls a differend.
Jean-Franois 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 ie. Phrases in Dispute Minneapolis. Lyotards concept is intended to indicate important aspects of the relationship between language and knowledge.
May 02 2014 Lyotards philosophy of phrases is called the diffrend a play on the concept of different indicating the other or something else a variation or a disruption that that resists unification with a larger story.
It is as though there were no universal logic and no language in general that they could appeal to in order to resolve their conflict Sfez 2007 p. In attempting to reconstruct reality in the convenient names of truth and common sense. Jean-Franois Lyotard DrE Literature University of Paris X 1971 was a French philosopher and literary theorist. Mar 28 2021 Jean-Franois Lyotard who coined this term in his book Le Diffrend 1983 translated as The Differend.
