Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: MATTHEW FRANCIS WETTLAUFER <mattw-AT-sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Lyotard & Derrida


Hugh

I hope I haven't said anything to give you offence.  I think I was a
little catty when I first posted a response to what was being written
about Derrida.  It was meant in humor but I would hate anyone to
think I was trying to corner them into "being wrong", etc. about
Derrida.  If that's how I was coming across I apologize.

I know next to nothing about Lyotard except what I have read in relation
to his writings on Heidegger (my background is mainly Heidegger,
Nietzsche, and Derrida).  I would be really curious if anyone has looked
at and discussed the difference between the term "differend" in Lyotard's
writing and how it appears in Derrida's (in Dissemination)?  

Matt