differend

is a conflict that is irresolvable for lack of a rule of judgment applicable to both arguments.

conflicts irresolvable 'for lack of a rule of judgment applicable to both arguments' (Lyotard la Differend xi)

is an injustice that is not litigable because the parties in conflict don't share the same rules of cognition, the same rules for linking phrases.

differend' is an injustice that is not litigable because the parties in conflict don't share the same rules of cognition, the same rules for linking phrases. ' (NET)

is concerned with the problem of how to united two heterogenous spheres without any relation between them.

The differend concerns the problem of linkage between heterogeneous spheres that must be united without any relation'

is the impossible act of thinking the unity beyond the distinction of unity and difference which we need not resolve, but must bear witness to.

Lyotard recognizes the impossibility of returning to the 'unmarked state', of thinking the unity beyond the distinction of unity and difference, but he nevertheless bemoans this impossibility and invests it with a moral and aesthetic imperative that commands us to figure it as the 'differend' or the sublime and to 'bear witness' to it' (Rasch 'Luhmann' new german critique 1994).

is the incommensurability of two language games.

is the ungraspable, but rich and meaningful space of loss that occurs when one discourse is translated into the terms of another discourse.

One discourse cannot be translated into the terms of another discourse without loss. the space where that loss occurred is called the differend. If then, a third discourse claims to be able to adjudicate successfully between the first two discourses, the differerend -that original sense of loss -is itself lost' (Rasch 'Lyotard' new German critique 1994 p.59).

is a book that argues that disputes between incommensurable positions cannot be resolved without injustice to one side or the other.

The Differend (1983) argues that disputes between incommensurable positions cannot be resolved without injustice to one side or the other.

differend, n.Definitions

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