Claire Nouvet is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University, where she is Fellow in the Psychoanalytic Institute. She is editor of Literature and the Ethical Question (1991). Zrinka Stahuljak is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship and Metaphor (2005). Kent Still is a Brittain Fellow in the Department of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech and co-editor of Addressing Levinas (2005).

• Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction: Minima Memoria Kent Still 1.Lyotard and Us Jacques Derrida 2.Saving the Honor of Thinking: On Jean-Fran'ois Lyotard Rodolphe Gasch' 3.Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Lyotard's Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory Dorota Glowacka 4.Toward a Feminist Ethics of Dissensus: Polemos, Embodiment, Obligation Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 5.The Writings of the Differend G'rald Sfez 6.The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony Claire Nouvet 7.Jean-Fran'ois' Infancy Christopher Fynsk 8.On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested Avital Ronell 9.Passages of the Maya Philippe Bonnefis 10. Lyotard Archipelago Michael Nass 11.Childish Things Geoffrey Bennington List of Contributors Index

"...a very high calibre contribution which succeeds in uncovering the power, sensitivity, and depth of Lyotard's thought, and in demonstrating its relevance for contemporary problems. As such, it succeeds in being the kind of 'wake' the authors intended." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques