In Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event, renowned French philosopher and theorist Jean- François Lyotard offers a critical analysis of his own work. In this intriguing narrative of his complex and often contradictory lifelong intellectual journey, Lyotard focuses on three principal realms of interest - the ethical-political, the aesthetic, and the historical - which are accented in the subtitle as law, form, and event.

These essays constitute nothing less than a plea for a theory sensitive enough to nuance, heterogeneity, and irresolvable contradiction to avoid the traps of theoretical dogmatism, in whatever form it might present itself. Lyotard recasts questions relating to justice, philosophy, and Kantian aesthetics in such a way that they take on a new vitality and critical importance.

Peregrinations has been hailed as one of the most significant theoretical texts of recent years. It is both an ideal introduction to Lyotard's work and a complex critical reevaluation of his entire theoretical oeuvre.