Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) is one of the most significant representatives of modern philosophy. In the work offered to the reader, European anti-Semitism with its culmination - the Holocaust, the attitude of European culture to this “event”, Heidegger’s notorious “unrepentance”, the degree of involvement of the great thinker - and his thoughts - in the elements of Nazism - this whole complex of themes is subjected to radical development by Lyotard , paradoxically based on the analysis of extremely classical and seemingly unrelated constructions: some Freudian concepts and the category of the sublime in Kant’s “Critique of Judgment.” The book caused a serious resonance both in France and abroad. Published in Russian for the first time.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.