From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Gorgias and the fragility of reality
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 06:57:51 -0500


Geof,

I really would like to hear more about this, especially if you could
give a kind of thumbnail sketch of this debate.

Let me just make this one comment for right now, since my fingers
already have blisters from typing.

Yes, Gorgias was certainly in the background of what I wrote, the
Gorgias section of Chapter 1 of the "The Differend."  Maybe I am just
stating the obvious, but I am surprised no one explicitly made that
connection.

The differend is obviously concerned with conflict, but I find it
interesting that Lyotard begins his discussion talking about the kind of
epistemological denial practiced by historical revisionists and, as
Gorgias shows, this latent possibility of denial is contained in every
assertion of existence as a kind of ontological shadow. 

It would be interesting to connect the arguments in Rhetoric with
Lyotard. (or is that already a part of the discussion?)

eric