Heterology and the PostmodernIn Heterology and the Postmodern, Julian Pefanis presents a new view of the history of poststructuralism (heterology) and the origins of postmodernism by analyzing three important French theorists, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, and Jean Franois Lyotard. Beginning with the introduction of Hegel in French postmodernist thoughtlargely but not exclusively through the thought of Georges BataillePefanis argues that the core problematics of postmodern