ABSTRACT
Or again: ‘We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible…’3
These sentiments-the denial of the solace of good forms and ‘we have paid a high enough price’ mark out the complex relationship in Lyotard’s thought between the aesthetic and the political. Both are destined ‘to have to furnish a presentation of the unrepresentable… The aesthetic supplements the historicalpolitical and the theoretical in general…as a means of pushing the theoretical beyond itself in pursuit of what it cannot capture or present, that is, conceptualise.’4
