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	lyotard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lyotard has remarked that The Postmodern Condition, in the eyes of his critics, has occluded his other works; that it was marked by a certain sociology and epistemology rather than philosophy; and that the philosophical basis of The Postmodern Condition is to be found in The Differend (1988a).
		Lyotard in his Political Writings, then, addresses the crisis of "the end of the political", that is, "of all attempts to moralize politics which were incarnated in Marxism" (Lyotard, 1988b: 300).
		Lyotard acknowledges his debt to Marx and yet remains within the ambit of a commodification thesis (albeit as a representational system) as one of the main processes of rationalisation which guides the development of the system as a whole: the Marxian analysis of commodity fetish as it applies to knowledge and education.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/lyotard.htm (2712 words)

	Rereading Lyotard: Knowledge, Commodification and Higher Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He argues that Lyotard's predictions about the death of the professor are built on two premises: (i) that the role of the professor is to educate students in the understanding of narratives, and (ii) that narratives have zero performativity in proving scientific claims.
		Lyotard, by contrast, 'would recognise that besides attempting to persuade professors and administrators to recognise positions, frequently there are other options to be employed in obtaining a hearing for unpopular opinions and gaining legitimation'.
		Lyotard himself, in The differend, argues that the philosopher is not certain of what he or she wants or knows and values reflective 'ignorance' as a form of resistance against the 'accountable or countable use of time' (1988, p.xvi).
	www.sociology.org /content/vol003.003/roberts.html (7429 words)

	Jean-François Lyotard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Lyotard describes the wholly impersonal as well as the personal in terms of feelings and desires, and paints a picture of the world that moves and is moved in the ways that feelings move people.
		Lyotard's description of the transformations of the libidinal band is a theoretical fiction which provides an account of how the world works through the interplay of intense, excited libidinal energies and the stable structures which exploit them and dampen their intensity.
		Lyotard presents a postmodern methodological representation of society as composed of multifarious and fragmented language games, but games which strictly (but not rigidly - the rules of a game can change) control the moves which can be made within them by reference to narratives of legitimation which are deemed appropriate by their respective institutions.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/Lyotard.htm (13557 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jean-FranÃ§ois Lyotard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jean-François Lyotard (August 10, 1924-April 21, 1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist.
		Before that, he was a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, a group formed in France in 1948 around a view of the inadequacy of the Trotskyist analysis of the new forms of domination in the Soviet Union.
		Lyotard maintained in Le Différend (The Differend) (1983) that human discourses occur in any number of discrete and incommensurable realms, none of which is privileged to pass judgment on the success or value of any of the others.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jean_Fran%c3%a7ois-Lyotard (648 words)

	20th WCP: Lyotard on the Kantian Sublime
		Lyotard describes the incommensurability of imagination and reason as a "differend" which is "to be found at the heart of sublime feeling: at the encounter of the two 'absolutes' equally 'present' to thought, the absolute whole when it conceives, the absolutely measured when it presents."
		Lyotard articulates the connection between the avant-gardes in the arts and the sublime in "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism," where he states that "it is in the aesthetic of the sublime that...
		Lyotard's strident call for the realization of sublime feeling in the avant-garde is ultimately a preventative against a return, which he deems fatal, to old Enlightenment metanarratives.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContDavi.htm (2948 words)

	Jean-Francois Lyotard
		Lyotard has written of speculative discourse as a language game - a game with specific rules which can be analyzed in terms of the way statements could be linked to each other.
		Lyotard's thought in The Differend is a valuable antidote to the totalitarian delirium for reducing everything to a single genre, thus stifling the differend.
		Lyotard might reply that this is to deny the (radically) heterogeneous status he has attributed to phrase regimes - a status ensuring the differend.
	www.unnu.com /newhome/attractions/philosophy/Lyotard.htm (2494 words)

	Jean-François Lyotard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jean-François Lyotard (August 10 1924-April 21 1998) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher and (additional info and facts about literary theorist) literary theorist.
		Among other things, he is well-known for his articulation of (Genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism) postmodernism after the late 1970s.
		Lyotard famously declared that now - in our postmodern or late-capitalist world - the ' (additional info and facts about Metanarrative) Metanarratives' are dead.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jean-fran%e7ois_lyotard1.htm (264 words)

	Jean-François Lyotard - Jean Francois Lyotard - French Postmodern Philosopher - Biography
		Lyotard was a council member and founding director, at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at Yale University, and other universities in the USA, Canada, South America, and Europe, and was for several years Professor of Critical Theory at the University of California, Irvine.
		Lyotard's thought in Le Différend (The Differend) (1983) is a valuable antidote to the totalitarian delirium for reducing everything to a single genre, thus stifling the differend.
		Lyotard maintained in The Differend that human discourses occur in any number of discrete and incommensurable realms, none of which is privileged to pass judgment on the success or value of any of the others.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/lyotard.html (1607 words)

	Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition
		Lyotard maintains that whatever principle society uses to legitimate knowledge must also be the principle that it uses to legitimate decision-making in society, and consequently government, laws, education, and many other basic elements of society.
		Lyotard identifies an important technical requirement for this new legitimation strategy to be effective, namely that the major data banks of information currently hoarded must be freely available in order to create a level playing field for research-oriented language games.
		Lyotard's paralogy can be taken to mean exactly this notion of identifying the worthy new concepts that emerge from the sea of research.
	userwww.service.emory.edu /~mhalber/Research/Paper/pci-lyotard.html (1630 words)

	JNU Workshop Paper "J.-F. Lyotard" (1)
		Lyotards work Le condition postmoderne was written as an report to the Conseil des Universitiés of the government of Quebec.
		In the central chapter 10, Lyotard discusses the transformation of the legitimation of scientific knowledge after the end of the linkage between science and the "great narratives" (think of the Enlightment aera and their scientific ideals).
		Lyotards shows the problems of this and proposes another solution: finding legitimation solemly in the "linguistic practice and communcational interaction" (41).
	www.zmk.uni-freiburg.de /CulturalGlobalization/Workshop/paper-jnu-4.htm (722 words)

	Amazon.com: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature): Books: Jean-Francois ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lyotard seems to think that scientific validity is something similar to government legitimacy, and is thus based on doctrines, dogmas, and the degree to which people subscribe to them.
		Lyotard's work is ground-breaking in the sense it reduces post-modernism to a state of collapse; the destruction of grand-narratives.
		Lyotard's language games, very Wittgensteinan in source, were set back by his dependance on the theory of speech acts rather than the rich insights of criticl linguistics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816611734?v=glance (1350 words)

	SAGE Publications - J. F. Lyotard
		The association between Lyotard and postmodernism is so strong that it threatens to eclipse his seminal contributions to aesthetics, politics, education, religion and phenomenology.
		The characteristic themes of the heterogeneity of language, the tyranny of imposed authority, the future of democracy, the contradictions of justice and the virtues of the post-modern imagination which re-radicalized a generation in the 1980s and '90s are all thoroughly explored here.
		Lyotard redefined the meaning of intellectual dissent and in doing so, suggested an important range of political and cultural responsibilities in the postmodern world.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /book.aspx?pid=106102&sc=1 (465 words)

	Books about Jean-François Lyotard
		"The Postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and Lyotard," pp.
		"Pedagogy and Apedagogy: Lyotard and Foucault at Vincennes," pp.
		Heterology and the Postmodern Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /~scctr/Wellek/lyotard/books_on_jfl.html (730 words)

	THE AMBIVALENCE OF OUR POSTMODERN CONDITION, by Dr. William Schultz
		Lyotard finally resorts to an unorthodox explanation in the form of the fable, which is most easily understood after a discussion of his entire theory originating almost twenty years earlier in The Post- modern Condition.
		Lyotard's most general and most quoted definition of postmodernism is the "incredulity to metanarra- tives" (MK 26; CPM 7; PC xxiv), the crisis of modernity, the type of thinking modelled on metanar- ratives or grand narratives (Moralites end of Chap- ter 6; Fables 101), and the rewriting of modernity (L'Inhumain 2-1; Inhuman 24).
		Lyotard seems to be thinking that, even though the weaker and less advanced cultures were always essentially assimilated, the numerous, and worldwide struggles with the European grand narratives made them suspect and pointed to their deficiencies which less advanced cultures did not have to suffer.
	www.costis.org /x/lyotard/schultz.htm (6849 words)

	Literary Minimalism & Jean François Lyotard
		Jean François Lyotard is a French philosopher whose "work may be understood as a thoroughgoing rejection of the place of theory or critique, of the project of enlightenment, of the commodification of knowledge" (Readings xvi).
		Lyotard explains this lack of moral opinion in his story "The Postmodern Fable." The story describes humanity’s preparation for an escape from Earth in fear of the Sun’s explosion, a blast that would destroy the entire galaxy.
		Lyotard explains this theory as "the unstable state and instant of language wherein something which must be able to put in phrases cannot yet be.
	www.gwu.edu /~english/kaleidoscope/Essaypages2003/Essay1.htm (1666 words)

	lyotarddiff.html
		Lyotard argued that from the threshold of modernity in the late 18th century until roughly 1960, Western societies had operated on a notion of knowledge under the aegis of a few dominant metanarratives.
		Lyotard thinks it does not matter whether it is Positivism's reliance on observation and experimentation, Heidegger's Rectorate Speech, Humboldt's University, or Marx and the idea of class struggle toward an emancipation from alienation, there is, for Lyotard, no longer any grand story to be told.
		Lyotard's insistence on the legitimacy of the performative, of "small" narratives, of the multiplicity and heterogeneity of language games leads him to a mosaic fracturing or splintering of knowledges.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /holocaust/lyotarddiff.html (1499 words)

	Literary Theory
		It is this revisionary agency that is characterized by Lyotard as rusing.
		Such determinative power Lyotard associates with the "classical" and with "terror," the antidote to which is the pagan (or postmodern), rusing.
		For Butler the way out lies in our grasp (understanding) that determinism, the "natural," is a form of intelligibilty or signification that is, in Foucault's sense, "constructivist" and not "essentialist," and that repetition ("iteration" in the register of Derrida's citationism) is a specific version of rusing that we may call "performative".
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~wamorris/theory.html (1689 words)

	Postmodernism
		The rise of literary theory, particularly of theory inspired by Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault, brought postmodernism from the streets and from the novel into the academy.
		Lyotard celebrates this multiplicity of "language games" (xxiv) and offers ceaseless experimentation in all these games as the highest good.
		At the very least, postmodernism highlights the multiplication of voices, questions, and conflicts that has shattered what once seemed to be (although it never really was) the placid unanimity of the great tradition and of the West that gloried in it.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/postmodernism.html (1724 words)

	Michael Gunzenhauser - Epistemological Reversals Between Chisholm and Lyotard
		Dhillon makes her connection with Chisholm's discussion of the language "to see" and Lyotard's discussion of the language "to witness." For Chisholm, perception is the very foundation of knowledge.
		The inference is that knowledge for Lyotard operates with both social and individual elements, and as Dhillon notes, Lyotard foregrounds the telling.
		Lyotard centers language by locating knowledge in networks of communication, and he raises the issue of language being controlled by propriety.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/96_docs/gunzenhauser.html (1408 words)

	Postmodern Therapies News
		The paradox is that Lyotard applauds postmoderns for being incredulous of metanarratives, but in Lyotard's own system of thought he prescribes what might be taken as a metanarrative.
		Lyotard is the great prescriber, the argument goes, because Lyotard is prescribing with a dictator's voice that everyone be given a voice in the discussion..
		In summary, Lyotard's paradox is that in trying to arrange a world in which people can speak freely, it is very very easy to slip into the role of a dictator.
	www.california.com /~rathbone/pmth3.htm (3280 words)

	Jean-Francois Lyotard, French Review 63.4 (1990)
		Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend: Phrases in Dispute is a dense work of philosophical, political and ethical reflection aimed at a specialized audience versed in current debates in logic, pragmatics and post-structuralism.
		Lyotard's strategy is to pursue a line of reasoning through seven chapters corresponding to various "themes," each chapter consisting of numbered reflections between which are interspersed at intervals different notices which provide philosophical enrichment of and background for the reasoning developed in the tightly interlinked numbered entries.
		Thus, to explore the differend, Lyotard posits the 'phrase' as an empty, operative concept, one from which all categories derive, but which itself is not determined by these categories.
	www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/Stivalerev/JFLyotardFRev90.html (598 words)

	Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		Lyotard’s project is to get under Malraux’s skin, tracing the interactions among art, literature, politics, sexuality, and ideology that led to his emergence as a cultural icon.
		Lyotard’s Malraux is a man haunted by death—not the existentialist dread of living in freedom, but the certainty that we are destined to die.
		LYOTARD is an electronic forum for the discussion of the works of Jean-Francois Lyotard, as well as related topics.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/lyotard.htm (521 words)

	ipedia.com: Jean-François Lyotard Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist well-known for his embracing postmodernism after the late 1970s.
		Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist well-known for his embracing postmodernism after the late 1970s.
		Before that, he was a member of the group Socialisme ou Barbarie ('Socialism or Barbarism'), a group of left-wing French intellectuals formed in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising in opposition to the Stalinism of Soviet communism.
	www.ipedia.com /jean_francois_lyotard_1.html (255 words)

	Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world.
		Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.
		Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) was one of the principal French philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/L/lyotard_postmoderncon.html (214 words)

	Jean Francois Lyotard - Jean-François Lyotard - French Postmodern Philosopher - Bibliography
		Lyotard, Jean-François, Dominique Bozo (Introduction), Alfred Pacquement, Dore Ashton, Vittorio Sgarbi.
		Lyotard, Jean-François, Maurice de Gandillac, Annie Cazenave (eds).
		Lyotard, Jean-François Jacques Derrida and Thomas Ferenczi (Interview/Conversation).
	www.egs.edu /faculty/jeanfrancoislyotard.html (2538 words)

	SIC ET NON: Martin Goetze: Die Kunst des Unbestimmten (Lyotards Aesthetik des Erhabenen)
		Diese Uneinigkeit ist der "instabile Zustand und der Moment der Sprache, in dem etwas, das in Sätze gebracht werden können muß, noch darauf wartet."2 Lyotard kommt es darauf an, dem Konflikt Ausdruck zu geben und ihn nicht in einer angemaßten Identität verschwinden zu lassen.
		Lyotard vergleicht die Stimmung des Rezipienten mit dem Zustand der Uneinigkeit, der sich einstellt, wenn angesichts verschiedener Diskursgenres die Anknüpfung an einen vorhandenen Satz stattfinden soll.
		Daher erkennt Lyotard in ihm keinen Verweis auf Ideen der Vernunft, sondern lediglich den Fingerzeig auf das völlig Unbestimmte.
	www.sicetnon.cogito.de /artikel/kunst/lyt.htm (2124 words)

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