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1、JUDGINGLYOTARDBestknownforhisbookThePostmodernCondition,Jean-FrançoisLyotardisoneoftheleadingfiguresincontemporaryFrenchphilosophy.Thisisthefirstcollectionofarticlestoofferanestimationandcritiqueofhiswork.WhilethevariouschaptersdealwithdifferentaspectsofLyota
2、rd’swritings,theyareallconcernedwiththequestionofjudgement.TheimportancetoLyotardofjudgement,andhowitisitselftobejudged,isarecurrentthemethroughouttheentirerangeofhiswork.ItisperfectlyevidentinhiscontinuingengagementwiththeworkofKant.Lyotard’sownessay,‘Sensus
3、communis’,whichopensthisvolume,investigatesthroughKantthepresuppositionsofjudgement.OtheressaysvariouslyconsiderhowinhiswritingsLyotardhasrenderedproblematicexistingformsofaesthetic,ethical,legalandpoliticaljudgement.JudgingLyotardisanimportantcollectionthatw
4、illreintroduceLyotardtoEnglish-speakingaudiences.Itisofparticularinteresttostudentsofphilosophy,criticaltheoryandliterarystudies.AndrewBenjaministhegeneraleditoroftheWarwickStudiesinPhilosophyandLiterature.HeisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofWarwic
5、k.HisbooksincludeArt,MimesisandtheAvant-GardeandTranslationandtheNatureofPhilosophy,whicharealsopublishedbyRoutledge.WARWICKSTUDIESINPHILOSOPHYANDLITERATUREGeneralEditor:AndrewBenjaminItusedtobeacommonplacetoinsistontheeliminationofthe‘literary’dimensionfromp
6、hilosophy.Thiswasparticularlytrueforaphilosophicaltraditioninspiredbythepossibilitiesofformalizationandbythesuccessofthenaturalsciences.Andyeteveninthemostrigorousinstancesofsuchphilosophywefinddemandsfor‘clarity’,for‘tight’argument,anddistinctionsbetween‘str
7、ong’and‘weak’proofswhichcalloutforarhetoricalreading.Equally,modernliterarytheoryisincreasinglylookingtophilosophy(andothertheoreticaldisciplines)foritsinspiration.Afterawaveofstructuralistanalysis,thegrowinginfluenceofdeconstructiveandhermeneuticreadingconti
8、nuestobearwitnesstothis.Whilephilosophyandliteraturecannotbeseenassubsidiariesofeachother,evenifphilosophyisthoughtofas‘akindofwriting’,muchofthemostexcitingtheoreticalworkbeingdonetodaye