ABSTRACT
Consensus has become an outmoded and suspect value. But justice as a value is neither outmoded nor suspect. We must thus arrive at an idea and practice of justice that is not linked to that of consensus. A recognition of the heteromorphous nature of language games is a first step in that direction…The second step is the principle that any consensus on the rules defining a game…must be local…and subject to eventual cancellation. The orientation then favors a multiplicity of finite meta-arguments. (Lyotard 1991, 66)
