Jean-François Lyotard | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of Jean-François Lyotard.

Jean-François Lyotard | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of Jean-François Lyotard.
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SOURCE: “Lyotard's ‘Kantian Socialism’,” in Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1990, pp. 23-37.

In the following essay, Geiman characterizes Lyotard's arrival at the idea of dissensus-as-authentic-consensus as the evolution of a Kantian socialism he sees at the root of Lyotard's politics.

The work of Jean-François Lyotard has been characterized as “an eclectic look at the overlapping boundaries between aesthetic, political and ethical territories.”1 This is not surprising. Like most French philosophers in the twentieth century—including Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty—Lyotard pursues his philosophical investigations with a great sensitivity to contemporary political and cultural developments. What separates him from many of his former and present compatriots, whose work has been often deemed “bereft of any moral orientation,”2 is his active concern for the place and the character of ethics in this constellation. His more recent works, Au juste3 and Le Différend,4 reflect this concern. In them...

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