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- Title
The wild and the subline: Lyotard's post-modern politics.
- Authors
Drolet, Michael
- Abstract
This paper examines the thought of Jean-François Lyotard in relation to the problems of justice and the constitution of a post-modern politics. It argues that Lyotard is highly influenced by Kant's aesthetics and specifically by the idea of indeterminate judgement in the formulation of a conception of justice that, in an age of social variegation and fragmentation, underlies a politics which strives to promote different ways of looking at, and living in, the world. The text concludes that Lyotard's conception of justice and its resultant politics are founded upon a skewed reading of Kant's work such that claims of truth and morality are separated from those of judgement. The result is a politics marked by radical individualism which poses the threat of social atomization.
- Subjects
JUSTICE administration &; politics; LYOTARD, Jean-Francois, 1924-1998; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; CRITICISM
- Publication
Political Studies, 1994, Vol 42, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9248.1994.tb01911.x