SOURCE: A review of Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event, in Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 13, No. 1, April, 1989, pp. 209-10.

In the following review of Peregrinations, Bogue offers a lucid thumbnail sketch of that volume and of Lyotard's career.

Where to locate the elusive Lyotard? Over the years, many have asked this question about the protean poststructuralist, and in 1986 the organizers of the Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California at Irvine invited Lyotard himself to respond. His answer, contained in the three lectures collected in this volume, is that he is not on any philosophical map, but off in the clouds—for “thoughts are clouds” (p. 5), fuzzy-edged, shifting, essentially temporal formations that summon us to their exploration. Lyotard calls that summons “law” and its proper response “probity”: “Imagine the sky as a desert full of innumerable cumulus clouds slipping by and metamorphosing themselves, and into whose flood your thinking...