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It is from this initial question that one of France's most heralded philosophers of the twentieth century begins his essay on the origin of the law, of judgment, and the work of his colleague Jean-Francois Lyotard. If Jacques Derrida begins with the term \u003cem\u003eprejuges\u003c\/em\u003e, it is in part because of its impossibility to be rendered properly in other languages and also contain all its meanings: to pre-judge, to judge before judging, to hold prejudices, to know \"how to judge,\" and more still, to be already prejudged oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStriving to contain that which comes before the law, that is in front of the law and also prior to it, how to judge Jean-Francois Lyotard then becomes perhaps a beneficial attempt for Derrida to explore humanity's rapport with judgment, origins, and naming. For how does one come to judge the author of the \u003cem\u003eDifferend\u003c\/em\u003e? How does one abstain from judgment to accept the term \u003cem\u003eprejuges\u003c\/em\u003e as suspending judgment and at once as taking into account the impossibility of speaking before the law, prior to naming or judging?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf this task indeed seems insurmountable, it is the site where Lyotard's work itself is played out. 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Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresented here in an entirely new translation as \u003ci\u003eClang\u003c\/i\u003e—its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell—this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel's totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet's autobiographical, carceral erotics. 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