Minima Memoria: In the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard 9781503625099

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MINIMA MEMORIA

MINIMA MEMORIA IN THE WAKE OF JEAN-FRANyOIS LYOTARD

Edited by Claire Nouvet, Zrinka Stahuljak, and Kent Still

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2007 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. The following chapters were reprinted by kind permission: Chapter I, "Lyotard and Us" was originally published in Jacques Derrida, The Work ofMourning, ed. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas © 200!, University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2, "Saving the Honor ofThinking: On Jean-Frans;ois Lyotard" was originally published in Parallax, vol. 6, no. 4, © 2000, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals. Chapter 5, "The Writings of the Differend" was originally published injean-Franrois Lyotard: L'exercice du dijfirend, ed. Dolores Lyotard, Jean-Claude Milner, Gerald Sfez © 2oor, Presses Universitaires de France. Chapter 6, "The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony" was originally published in Discourse, vol. 25, no. I & z, © 2003, Wayne State University Press. Chapter 7, "Jean-Frans;ois's Infancy" was originally published in Yale French Studies 99, ]eanFranrois Lyotard: Time and judgment, ed. Harvey and Schehr,© 2001, Yale University Press. Chapter 9, "Passages of the Maya" was originally published in ]ean-Franrois Lyotard: L'exercice du dijfirend, ed. Dolores Lyotard, Jean-Claude Milner, Gerald Sfez, © 2001, Presses Universitaires de France. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Minima memoria: in the wake ofJean-Frans;ois Lyotard I edited by Claire Nouvet, Zrinka Stahuljak, and Kent Still. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-o-8o47-5I11-7 (cloth: alk. paper} ISBN-IJ: 978-o-8047-5II2-4 (pbk. : alk. paper} r. Lyotard, Jean Frans;ois. I. Nouvet, Claire. II. Srahuljak, Zrinka. III. Still, Kent. B2430.L964M56 2oo6 194-dc22 20060!7974 Typeset by Newgen in ulr3.5 Adobe Garamond

Contents

Abbreviations

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Introduction: Minima Memoria

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Kent Still Lyotard and Us

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jacques Derrida Saving the Honor of Thinking: On Jean-Fran