Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 11:23:59 -0700
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Foucault and Lyotard?


D. Diane Davis wrote:
> 
> >Still, it seems clear to me, as i think it was to Lyotard, that he was
> >able to take Wittgenstein's idea of a langauge game and tun with it.
> 
> Lyotard talks a leeeeetle bit about this, in fact, in an interview with Van
> Den Abbeele in a special 1984 issue of _diacritics_ that was devoted to him
> (lyotard). This is also the issue that published "The Differend, The
> Referent, and the Proper Name" and a wonderful piece by Lacoue-Labarthe
> called "Talks." In the interview, Lyotard explains why he moved from the
> concept of the "language game" to the notion of the "phrase universe."
> Interesting read.
> 
> best, ddd
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Diane and Lois,

Thanks, 

You have both mentioned some items I was not aware of, would
like to read, don't know how to find.

Searching different Lists, I find that an ordinary conversation
and exchange of ideas is the hard part.  Ego-trips, name-dropping,
"gotcha's", name-calling, abusive language, are easy.

As occasional seat-mates on life-trips we use the best words
we can find to say and hear, and sometimes we learn and enjoy.

In an hours-long plane-trip you sometimes learn more from a living
stranger than you can acquire by reading dead authors.  By conversing in
the here-and-now, by anticipating a future, by sharing experience of
one's voyage through a personal symbolic universe.

A wee bit of the mystery of the mystery of language.

Hugh