SOURCE: A review of Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 48, No. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 88-90.

In the following review of Peregrinations, Ormiston outlines the meaning of thinking according to Lyotard.

Peregrinations presents Lyotard's Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory delivered at the University of California at Irvine (May 1986). Titled “Clouds,” Touches,” and “Gaps,” these lectures recount the thoughts, borrowed idioms, phrasic connections, “reflective judgments,” and desires (the Kantian Ideas) that have led him on certain textual and narrative paths in the pursuit of “new artistic clouds and new clouds of thought” (p. 43). Peregrinations also includes a paper published originally in French, “A Memorial of Marxism: for Pierre Souyri,” which chronicles Lyotard's relation to the French Marxist Pierre Souyri, Lyotard's own involvement with Marxism (1954-1966), and his work with Souyri on the journal Socialisme ou Barbarie and the newspaper Pouvoir Ouvrier. The last...