How does Lyotard’s differend illuminate the project of faith in God’s providence?
One of the throughfares between The Consolation of Philosophy and “The Differend,” is a concern with illegibility. The Consolation closes on Lady Philosophy’s final argument, in which she asserts that Boethius misinterprets God’s providence as pre-vision because he is bound to the human conception of linear time. God, whereas, experiences all time at once. To try to comprehend God’s mode of being and experience of time as a human is…