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The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (French: Le Différend) is a 1983 book by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.
- Jean François Lyotard
- 1983
22. Aug. 2022 · In what follows, I will examine Lyotard’s work on the ‘differend’ and the philosophy of the ‘phrase’ which accompanies it, arguing that it offers an alternative to the epistemic paradigm of deep disagreement that the FEP and ‘hinge’ views exemplify.
- James Cartlidge
- jkcartlidge92@googlemail.com
A differend is a wrong or injustice that cannot be expressed or proved because the discourse that could do so is denied or precluded. The term was coined by Jean-François Lyotard and applied to cases such as Holocaust denial and Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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.
- Dylan Sawyer
Indeed, The Differend, arguable Lyotard’s most important statement to date, can be understood as a renewal of the sophistic (and specifically Gorgianic) view of invention. —
At the beginning of the 1980s, Jean-François Lyotard elaborated the notion of the differend,1a notion that can be read as the central piece in a philosophical theory of radical disputes, indeed a theory of the radicality of dispute. The concept is explicitly meant to shed light on ethical, political and historical debates.
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. A differend is opposed to a litigation – a dispute which can be equitably resolved because ...
