rightly

Author: Jean François Lyotard, Jean Loup Thebaud

"I wrote books like bottles dropped into the sea, and you read them; you are a reader who asks questions and even suggests reading comments, that is, you are a reader who starts talking. A reader is the receiver of written messages. A reader who starts talking, on the contrary, is a reader who sends new messages." Even though this message is a question and expects an answer in its turn... In this way, in our current game the roles are in a sense reversed, because it is I who try to listen to your questions and, in turn, speak from them. You ask your questions accordingly to the extent that it raises questions in your mind, and then these questions raise some questions in my mind: the swapping of roles, the reversal of places, these are exactly the things that led to the production of this book, this is not and cannot be a book about the previous ones. Because here I am not the person who wrote the books, but the person who listens to the person who read those books (you). Here is a book that belongs to me, not written by me.

In By Right, Lyotard prepares and declares his political stance after the "scandal" created by Libidinal Economy, with concepts borrowed from the philosophy of language, Kant and Lévinas. What is at stake here is neither abandoning the political problem in favor of a naive poetic thought, nor simply returning to Kant after the disappointment of the speculative thought of Hegel, which Lyotard suspected of having totalitarian tendencies. Rather, what is at stake is the reshaping of Lyotard's political thought around the question of justice.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 192

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İthaki Publications

Cover Design: Şükrü Karakoç
Prepared for Publication by: Ahmet Öz

First Print Year: 2014

Number of Pages: 192

Language Turkish