File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9712, message 48


From: "jon roffe" <i_mimesis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: wittgenstein, lyotard, foucault
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:41:49 PST


Arturo

>Adorno actually makes this remark about philosophy first and foremost
>not about poetry. . . his questioning about the possibilities for and 
of
>philosophy after the Holocaust is one of the leit motifs which guide
>most of his work from the Dialectic of Enlightenment on. . .and his
>responses vary. . . at some point he argues that this is in fact a time
>for philosophy precisely because philosophy failed, because philosophy,
>pace Hegel, missed its moment of realization once and for all. . .

Good point.  It's been a few years since I read this stuff, and after I 
sent my mail, it occurred to me that I might have forgotten something . 
. . and I had!

Cheers
Jon

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