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Book Introducing Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Readings
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-06-19
  • ISBN : 1134936702
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Introducing Lyotard written by Bill Readings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.

Book The Politics of Jean Francois Lyotard

Download or read book The Politics of Jean Francois Lyotard written by Chris Rojek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, feminism, youth and Judaism.

Book Jean Fran  ois Lyotard  Politics and history of philosophy

Download or read book Jean Fran ois Lyotard Politics and history of philosophy written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh J. Silverman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-01-20
  • ISBN : 1134720378
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Lyotard written by Hugh J. Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Franois Lyotard, the highly influential twentieth-century philosopher of the postmodern, has had an enormous impact on the course and commitment of contemporary philosophy. Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime is a thoroughgoing reassessment of his extraordinary legacy and contribution to contemporary cultural, political, ethical, and aesthetic theory, and an indispenable guide to key issues in his philosophy. Fifteen distinguished scholars have contributed new, original essays examining the main themes in Lyotard's work with a focus on the special intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and the experience of the sublime in art. The volume includes an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Lyotard, previously unpublished photographs of Lyotard, and an incisive essay by Lyotard himself on the philosophical significance of Freud's case of Emma.

Book Lyotard and Politics

Download or read book Lyotard and Politics written by Stuart Sim and published by Thinking Politics. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Jean François Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics': finding ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.

Book Beyond Postmodern Politics

Download or read book Beyond Postmodern Politics written by Honi Fern Haber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory.

Book Introducing Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Readings
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-06-19
  • ISBN : 1134936710
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Introducing Lyotard written by Bill Readings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.

Book Politics of Jean Francois Lyotard

Download or read book Politics of Jean Francois Lyotard written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes kapitelvis.

Book Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives

Download or read book Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives written by Gary K. Browning and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyotard's work challenges the presumption and orientation of modern political philosophy. In particular, he repudiates attempts to justify knowledge and society in terms of "grand" narratives of, for example, the liberation of mankind or the immanence of science. He argues that the totalising perspective of these meta-narratives is superseded by a post-modern acceptance of difference and variety and a scepticism towards unifying meta-theories.

Book The Postmodern Condition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-François Lyotard
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780816611737
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Book Libidinal Economy

Download or read book Libidinal Economy written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.

Book The Lyotard Reader and Guide

Download or read book The Lyotard Reader and Guide written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lyotard Reader and Guide is a one-stop companion to Lyotard's thought. It covers the full range of his works, from his three main books (Discours, figure; Libidinal Economy; and The Differend) and up to his influential essays in The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables. The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.

Book Philosophy  Sophistry  Antiphilosophy

Download or read book Philosophy Sophistry Antiphilosophy written by Matthew R. McLennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Badiou's work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not well known is the extent to which Badiou's positions, vis-à-vis ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were hammered out in dispute with the late Jean-François Lyotard. Matthew R. McLennan's Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy is the first work to pose the question of the relation between Lyotard and Badiou, and in so doing constitutes a significant intervention in the field of contemporary European philosophy by revisiting one of its most influential and controversial forefathers. Badiou himself has underscored the importance of Lyotard for his own project; might the recent resurgence of interest in Lyotard be tied in some way to Badiou's comments? Or deeper still: might not Badiou's philosophical Platonism beg an encounter with philosophy's other, the figure of the sophist that Lyotard played so often and so ably? Posing pertinent questions and opening new discursive channels in the literature on these two major figures this book is of interest to those studying philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, cultural and media studies.

Book Lyotard and the Political

Download or read book Lyotard and the Political written by James Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyotard and the Political is the first book to consider the full range of the political thought of the French philosopher François Lyotard and its broader implications for an understanding of the political. James Williams clearly and carefully traces the development of Lyotard's thought from his early Marxist essays on the Algerian struggle for independence to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud. This is compared with Lyotard's later, highly influental writings on the politics of desire and his attempts to base a postmodern political discourse on the sublime. An indispensable work for all who are interested in modern continental philosophy, Lyotard and the Political offers the first systematic analysis of the political dimension of the work of one of the most controversial and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Also available in this series: Lacan and the Political Pb: 0-415-17187-3: £12.99 Heidegger and the Political Pb:0-415-13064-6: £12.99 Derrida and the Political Pb: 0-415-10967-1: £13.99 Nietzche and the Political Pb: 0-41510069-0: £12.99 Foucault and the Political Pb: 0-415-10066-6: £12.99

Book Just Gaming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean François Lyotard
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780719014741
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Just Gaming written by Jean François Lyotard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Diff  rend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-François Lyotard
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780816616114
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Le Diff rend written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

Book Jean Francois Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-14
  • ISBN : 1350081329
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Jean Francois Lyotard written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics. This volume presents a diverse selection of interviews, conversations and debates which relate to the five decades of his working life, both as a political militant, experimental philosopher and teacher. Including hard-to-find interviews and previously untranslated material, this is the first time that interviews with Lyotard have been presented as a collection. Key concepts from Lyotard's thought – the differend, the postmodern, the immaterial – are debated and discussed across different time periods, prompted by specific contexts and provocations. In addition there are debates with other thinkers, including Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which may be less familiar to an Anglophone audience. These debates and interviews help to contextualise Lyotard, highlighting the importance of Marx, Freud, Kant and Wittgenstein, in addition to the Jewish thought which accompanies the questions of silence, justice and presence that pervades Lyotard's thinking.