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Waltham-Smith, Naomi (2022) The silences of feeling. Philosophy Today, 66 (2). pp. 287-307. doi:10.5840/philtoday2022120438 ISSN 0031-8256.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2022120438
Abstract
In Le différend Lyotard evocatively describes what remains to be heard as “the silence of feeling.” Setting Lyotard’s différend among a differentiated set of incommensurable family resemblances, including Rancière’s mésentente and Derrida’s différance, this paper argues that le différend même, far from coinciding with itself, points to the re-marks and differs from itself, silencing itself by putting itself under a conditional. This is what gives its particular affective quality that is bound up with address and listening. From this perspective, it also becomes possible to develop a new analysis of the silencing said to constitute “cancel culture,” demonstrating that the marketplace-of-ideas model falsely presupposes a fictional equality of audibility and originary purity of speech. What Lyotard teaches us is that free speech cannot but silence itself.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998. Différend., Censorship, Silence (Philosophy), Cancel culture | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy Today | ||||||||
Publisher: | DePaul University | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0031-8256 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 66 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 287-307 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.5840/philtoday2022120438 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Philosophy Today | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2022 |
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