{"product_id":"before-the-law-the-complete-text-of-prejuges-1","title":"Before the Law: The Complete Text of Préjugés","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBefore the Law: The Complete Text of Préjugés\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJacques Derrida\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781517905514\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniv Of Minnesota Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"How to judge--Jean-François Lyotard?\" It is from this initial question that one of France's most heralded philosophers of the twentieth century begins his essay on the origin of the law, of judgment, and the work of his colleague Jean-François Lyotard. If Jacques Derrida begins with the term \u003ci\u003epréjugés\u003c\/i\u003e, it is in part because of its impossibility to be rendered properly in other languages and also contain all its meanings: to \u003ci\u003epre\u003c\/i\u003e-judge, to judge \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e judging, to hold prejudices, to know \"how to judge,\" and more still, to be already prejudged oneself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStriving to contain that which comes before the law, that is in front of the law and also prior to it, how to judge Jean-François Lyotard then becomes perhaps a beneficial attempt for Derrida to explore humanity's rapport with judgment, origins, and naming. For how does one come to judge the author of the \u003ci\u003eDifferend\u003c\/i\u003e? How does one abstain from judgment to accept the term \u003ci\u003epréjugés\u003c\/i\u003e as suspending judgment and at once as taking into account the impossibility of \u003ci\u003espeaking\u003c\/i\u003e before the law, prior to naming or judging? If this task indeed seems insurmountable, it is the site where Lyotard's work itself is played out. Hence this sincere and intriguing essay presented by Jacques Derrida, published here for the first time in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Before the Law: The Complete Text of Préjugés | Jacques Derrida | Paperback | 9781517905514 | New | Philosophy 1607382","offer_id":48186689355928,"sku":"1607382","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71vI-w0L1tL_1b0f3cc3-bc1e-4446-a041-29a3d16ed5f4.jpg?v=1772384582","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/before-the-law-the-complete-text-of-prejuges-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}