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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:44:51 -0800 (PST)
From: MATTHEW FRANCIS WETTLAUFER <mattw-AT-sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Query


Dear Eric,

I've read some Levinas including Outside the Subject and Totality and
Infinity, but I've not read the essay by Lyotard.  I would like to discuss
Levinas as opposed to Lyotard but I will have to look for the Lyotard
essay and I can't do that right now.  But maybe next week? 

Matt

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997 EricMurph-AT-aol.com wrote:

> 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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