 | Jean-François Lyotard - Philosophy - 1984 - 142 pages
...totalize them into a real unity. But Kant also knew that the price to pay for such an illusion is terror. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman, Thomas A. McCarthy, Thomas McCarthy - Philosophy - 1987 - 504 pages
...conclusons from his shift in perspective and points, however vaguely, toward a new conception of politics. "The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We paid a high enough price for the nostalgia for the whole and the one, for the réconciliation of the... | |
 | Rudy Wiebe - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 241 pages
...totalize them into a real unity. But Kant also knew that the price to pay for such an illusion is terror. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Vincent Michael Colapietro - Philosophy - 1988 - 176 pages
...1889 [1968], 25) and, at worst, a will to dominate — indeed to terrorize. In the words of Lyotard, The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Fred Reinhard Dallmayr - Political Science - 1989 - 298 pages
...unity. But Kant also knew,” he continues, “that the price to pay for such an illusion is terror. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take.” In Lyotard's view, speculative thought is vitiated not only by its practical consequences but also... | |
 | Jane Flax - Social Science - 1990 - 296 pages
...totalize them into a real unity. But Kant also knew the price to pay for such an illusion is terror. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Larry McCaffery - Fiction - 1991 - 410 pages
...totalize them into a real unity. But Kant also knew that the price to pay for such an illusion is terror. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Eliot Deutsch - Philosophy - 1991 - 686 pages
...essay, “What is Postmodernism?” with a rhetorical flourish directed toward Hegel and his legacy. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
 | Stanley Aronowitz - Education - 1991 - 218 pages
...educational theory and cultural criticism. Postmodernism and the Crisis of Totality and Foundationalism We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia...the transparent and the communicable experience.. . - Let us wage war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences... | |
 | Steven Weiland - History - 1991 - 268 pages
...about seizing reality was made by Lyotard himself in the closing sentences of The Posrmodern Condition: “We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia...of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire... | |
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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable... 
