Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:57:38 -0500 Subject: Re: OTB While I'm not prepared to relate the following question to the problem of (or problems in) consensus, I'm betting that the media can handle it if I put a very basic query out there, related to the _Enthusiasm (The Kantian Critique of History)_ of Lyotard. [Does anyone know if anyone has plans to translate this work -- or has it been? Or possibly of any studies related to the reception of this work?] I think I'll just ask if anyone has any interest in, insight into, the distinction that Lyotard draws between his own approach to Kant and the "ontologizing" approach of Nancy/Heidegger -- that is, distinction between a focus on the founding notion of system in Kant, and the enjeu of presentation that is involved, and Lyotard's own approach that is concerned primary with the "ends" of reason, with the critical tribunal, and the primary function of philosophy for Kant as judge, magistrate, discriminator, and critic. As in, how to draw the line, really, between the two approaches...how is Lyotard's approach fundamentally different from a sort of "internal critique", which here might be a reduction of minute verbal discretions to a reading of the "project" such as we might find it, somewhere...or is Lyotard not concerned with such a distinction, going somewheres else? If I recall (I don't have access to the book right now), the _Differend_'s notices on Kant elide the necessarily minute aspects of Lyotard's other analysis...I'm wondering how this might work out, in terms of his oeuvre, or if anyone has any references for or insight into the evolution of Lyotard's insights into Kant. This is very imprecise, but I just wondered if anyone was working on this particular text, silently.... Yours, john l.
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