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**Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard**“How to judge—Jean-François Lyotard?” It is from this initial question that one of France’s most heralded philosophers of the twentieth century begins his essay on the origin of the law, of judgment, and the work of his colleague Jean-François Lyotard. If Jacques Derrida begins with the term__préjugés__, it is in part because of its impossibility to be rendered properly in other languages and also contain all its meanings: to__pre__-judge, to judge__before__judging, to hold prejudices, to know “how to judge,” and more still, to be already prejudged oneself. Striving to contain that which comes before the law, that is in front of the law and also prior to it, how to judge Jean-François Lyotard then becomes perhaps a beneficial attempt for Derrida to explore humanity’s rapport with judgment, origins, and naming. For how does one come to judge the author of the__Differend__? How does one abstain from judgment to accept the term__préjugés__as suspending judgment and at once as taking into account the impossibility of__speaking__before the law, prior to naming or judging? If this task indeed seems insurmountable, it i

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Author

Jacques Derrida; Sandra Van Reenen; Jacques De Ville

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781517905514

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Law, Humanities