 Shortly after completing Libidinal Economy, Lyotard began nine years of efforts crafting his masterwork, The Differend (1983). The book begins with a “Reading Dossier” that sets out clearly the question, theses, context, addressee, and so forth of the work in separate paragraphs. The context, he argues, is the linguistic turn in philosophy, and his avowed method is to engage political disputes on the model of linguistic affairs (Differend, xiii). The book itself contains 264 numbered paragraphs, building on arguments he had been making in the years leading up to the work. The major change is that Lyotard no longer uses the term “language games”, which led some readers to think that subjects could be outside these games as players. Lyotard is clear that subjects are only such in the way that they move and are produced by moves within different language games. The “object”, of The Differend will be “phrases”, which are indubitable since “to doubt that one phrases is still to phrase”, he argues, since even “one’s silence makes a phrase” (Differend, 11).