... as metaphor, reading as a case study Ian McEwan's The Children Act . McEwan's novel dramatizes a conflict between religion and the secular law, which is an example of the type of dispute that Jean-François Lyotard identifies in The Differend : a dispute that is unresolvable because the process for regulating...

... by Ian McEwan—not in the characters, whose actions are all too legible and purposeful, but in the formal organization of the work itself. At the heart of The Children Act is a differend , a “place of silence” at the interstices of two discursive regimens: on one hand, the discourse of the legal ruling...

..., repetitive personality shaped by certain formative events in personal life” (24). Moses's theoretical différend is more sharply delineated with respect to psychoanalysis, the theory of subjectivity that he argues—correctly, I think—“had a large hand in obscuring vitalist ideas and its rich conceptual...

... recently written, the term "de- colonization" (which Lusophone Africans have in effect "surgically" removed from their historiographic lexicon) conceals a differend "around the definition of the subject: who decolonizes whom"; were the independences of the former colonies the "result...

... of the differend in Lyotard to the idea of the untamable, the unredeemable, and so on. And so a certain mourning of modernity originating from [Theodor] Adorno and the Frankfurt School resulted in a kind of mourning about the illusions of modernity. So it was part of the discourse of the end. And I had...

... . ———. X-marks: Native Signatures of Assent . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2010 . Lyotard Jean-François . The Differend: Phrases in Dispute . Trans. Van Den Abbeele Georges . Manchester : Manchester UP , 1988 . Michael John . Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals...