File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1999/lyotard.9912, message 3


Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 12:17:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Lyotard on 'disconsensus'?


Sharon O'Toole Dubois wrote:

> I am writing an article on cognitive dissidents and I'm looking for
> information on Lyotard's discussion of consensus and dis/de(?)consensus.
> If anyone knows where I might find this thread of his thought, I will be
> most appreciative.

one place you might consider is lyotard's "postmodern fables."  it contains
lyotard's after-the-event (so to speak) comments on a debate held with
rorty, wherein the question of consensus was prominant.  (i can't remember
if it includes a published source for the debate itself.)

if you have time, you might also look at eco's new "kant and the platypus:
essays on language and cognition."  lyotard isn't discussed, but issues of
cognition, language,  and consensus are, as well as examinations of kant and
heidegger.

brent ...

palimpsest:  http://www.gherkin.com/palimpsest/
beauty:  http://pages.hotbot.com/arts/palimpsest/


   

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