From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: questions
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:53:06 -0400 (EDT)


 hi arjan simons,

	I have been reading and giving some thought to your recent,
thoughfull posts. I am currently busy but i will attempt a brief and
somewhat general response outlining some of my own current research about
lyotards multiple subject matter whose passing variety is so difficult if
not impossible to fix in a phrase.

	i am exploring what lyotard has writen about the sublime and the
avant-garde. The essay where he discusses the work of randy newman whose
"voice of fire" i saw recently at the national gallery in canada. more
particularly i am following up on a very narginal comment that he makes
with regards to a certain line of cartesian thought when he mentions the
name of Fenelon.it seems to me that given his interest in levinas this
very brief remark connects us up with Totality and Infinity where
Descartes plays a major roll and also connects us up with the 'notion' of
sensibility or taste which he seems to oppose as an approach to alterity
to knowledge's construction of connceptual frames, represenattional
figures which subsume the play of appearances.

	i will provide more intricate and detailed posts later...


regards,

Ariosto Raggo  ...



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