ABSTRACT Jean-François Lyotard famously described the task of philosophy as “bearing witness to the differend”, a differend being a conflict that cannot be equitably solved due to the lack of a rule applicable to all parties involved. Lyotard expanded the notion of differend in his later works. With the name of “the differend itself”, Lyotard seeks to signal a more radical conflict: between articulate meaning and affect. This development changes the task of philosophy. In this article, bearing witness to the differend itself is conceptualized as a twofold process, consisting of a negative and a positive aspect. On the one hand, the differend itself cannot as such be written into language. On the other hand, however, philosophizing presupposes affect as its impetus. To signal this, an openness to affect and a freedom with regard to style are required, thereby showing that reason and affect are not opposed but presuppose each other.

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肯定情感：利奥塔后期作品中的哲学任务

摘要让·弗朗索瓦·利奥塔（Jean-FrançoisLyotard）著名地将哲学的任务描述为“承担分歧的见证者”，分歧是由于缺乏适用于所有有关各方的规则而无法公平解决的冲突。利奥塔（Lyotard）在后来的作品中扩大了差异性的概念。利奥塔德以“差异本身”为名，试图发出一个更为激进的冲突：表达的含义与情感之间。这一发展改变了哲学的任务。在本文中，对差异本身的见证被概念化为一个双重过程，包括消极和积极方面。一方面，差异本身不能被这样写成语言。但是，另一方面，哲学化则以情感为动力。为了表示这个