Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:21:07 -0800
From: "Gerald M. Swatez" <swatez-AT-ni.net>
Subject: Re: A Reading of the Dossier


At 9:55 PM -0800 3/19/99, hugh bone wrote:
>Enough of cataloging, referencing, talking about other people.
>
>What do *you* think is important in Le Differend, and what questions
>arise in your mind that we (not the experts) are invited to comment on?

I think, Hugh, that "we come from different places".

I think we speak, each of us, in a different voice than does the other, and
that we all tend to hear each other in our own voice. I think that "hearing
the other" is very difficult. (If one person uses one phrase regime, within
one genre of discourse, and the other person uses another, can they be in
communication?)

I think that establishing a common ground is essential. (I think we need to
dance around each other for a while to get a feel each for the others, so
that we can then begin to communicate in earnest.)

I think that what is important in Le Differend is the beginning Lyotard
seems to me to make in explicating (clarifying, establishing) how/why we
tend to stand on different grounds in our communications with each other.
(I wonder who else has said some of the same things he has.)

Best,
Jerry