Introducing Lyotard
Title | Introducing Lyotard PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Readings |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2006-06-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134936702 |
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.
Introducing Lyotard
Title | Introducing Lyotard PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Readings |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2006-06-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134936710 |
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.
Introducing Lyotard
Title | Introducing Lyotard PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Readings |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0415021960 |
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.The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's intervention 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 post-structuralism'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.
The Postmodern Condition
Title | The Postmodern Condition PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780816611737 |
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.
Libidinal Economy
Title | Libidinal Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Francois Lyotard |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780826477002 |
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.
The Lyotard Reader and Guide
Title | The Lyotard Reader and Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231139359 |
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.
Rereading Jean-François Lyotard
Title | Rereading Jean-François Lyotard PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Bickis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317065700 |
What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works explores the impact and relevance of Lyotard's largely undiscussed late philosophical works for contemporary theoretical debates. In his works produced from 1990 until his death in 1998, Lyotard addresses a number of themes that both revisit and move beyond those from his earlier work. These include: art and aesthetics; affect; ethics and politics; modernity and the subject. Despite designating these texts as part of a 'late period', the chapters do not exclude a wider engagement with Lyotard's thought and often seek to engage in connections, resonances and developments across his many texts. Each chapter within this book places Lyotard as a figure with much to offer current theoretical debates, reasserts Lyotard as an important thinker for developments in social thought, and draws out the many links between his philosophical work and broader social questions. This is the first work in English to focus on Lyotard's later writings and will therefore be a key text to all scholars of his ideas.