Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:10:28 -0600
Subject: Re: PMC:  What is Postmodernism:  A Demand


What does art that presents a "stronger sense of the unpresentable" (p.81)
look like?  Are there examples of this today?  
What does Lyotard's "war on totality" (p.82) and rejection of the whole
mean for ethics?  Are traditional grounding ethical systems also rejected?
How can live in a manner that "invent[s] allusions to the conceivable that
cannot be represented?" (82)  What does such a life look like?  What is the
human relationship to those "Ideas of which no presentation is possible?"
(78)  


 At 18:55 26.10.98 -0600, you wrote:
>It seems that Lyotard has some respect for Adorno ("....It is this critique
>which not only Wittegenstien and Adorno have initiated....").  Does Popper,
>who shares a citing with Adorno on the previous page, also fall into the
>same group as Adorno/Wittgenstein regarding a critique of "a unitary end of
>history and of a subject"?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Detlef Borchers <detlef-AT-topspin.de>
>To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 2:59 PM
>Subject: Re: PMC: What is Postmodernism: A Demand
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>>M. Collette wrote:
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>>> I am sure that sly bugger Lyotard (and his translator) slipped the
>>> german words in on us fully aware of this.
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>>Well, his German was quite good, very fluent. --Detlef
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