File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1999/lyotard.9912, message 4


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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