The Differend Phrases in Dispute Jean-François Lyotard Translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele Foreword by Wlad Godzich		$18.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-1611-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1611-4
"This work is of vital importance in a period when revisionism of all stripes attempts to rewrite, and often simply deny, the occurrence of historical and cultural events, i.e. in attempting to reconstruct 'reality' in the convenient names of 'truth' and 'common sense.'" —French Review Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) was one of the principal French philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. His works include The Postmodern Condition (1984), Just Gaming (1985), Heidegger and "the jews" (1990), The Postmodern Explained (1992), Political Writings (1993), Postmodern Fables (1997), and Signed, Malraux (1999). 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 1989 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 46