File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9711, message 32


From: EricMurph-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 22:47:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Query


I find a close relationship between Lyotard's comments on obligation and
those of Levinas.  It seems that Lyotard here is working in the grove
cultivated by Levinas, albeit pruning in a critical way.  For one thing, he
seems to apply the ethical in a way that moves away from the religiousity
often present in Levinas.

Lyotard almost wrote a extremely dense essay entitles "Levinas' Logic"
translated in "The Lyotard Reader" that overlaps much of the discussion in
"The Differend".   It would be useful to have a close reading and discussion
on-line of these texts.  It would also be fruitful to discuss the ways in
which Lyotard and Levinas differ.  However, it does seem hard to get any
takers in this group.   

Does anyone out there want to read first and talk later?

   

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