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Book Synopsis Introducing Lyotard by : Bill Readings
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 Synopsis The Postmodern Condition by : Jean-François Lyotard
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 Synopsis The Lyotard Reader and Guide by : Keith Crome
Download or read book The Lyotard Reader and Guide written by Keith Crome and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 370 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 Synopsis Libidinal Economy by : Jean-Francois Lyotard
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 Synopsis Why Philosophize? by : Jean-Francois Lyotard
Download or read book Why Philosophize? written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and far-reaching meditation on how essential it is to philosophize in a world where philosophy often seems irrelevant, outdated, or inconclusive. Lyotard begins by drawing on Plato, Proust and Lacan to show that philosophy is a never-ending desire - for wisdom, for the ‘other’. In the second lecture he draws on Heraclitus and Hegel to explore the close relation between philosophy and history: the same restlessness, the same longing for a precarious unity, drives both. In his third lecture, Lyotard examines how philosophy is a form of utterance, both communicative and indirect. Finally, he turns to Marx, exploring the extent to which philosophy can be a transformative action within the world. These wonderfully accessible lectures by one of the most influential philosophers of the last 50 years will attract a wide readership, since, as Lyotard says, ‘How can one not philosophize?’ They are also an excellent introduction to Lyotard’s mature thought, with its emphasis on the need for philosophy to bear witness, however obliquely, to a recalcitrant reality.
Book Synopsis Jean François Lyotard: Ethics by : Victor E. Taylor
Download or read book Jean François Lyotard: Ethics written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jean François Lyotard: Politics and history of philosophy by : Victor E. Taylor
Download or read book Jean François 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 Synopsis Jean-François Lyotard by : Simon Malpas
Download or read book Jean-François Lyotard written by Simon Malpas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-François Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between knowledge, art, politics and history, in ways that offer radical new possibilities for thinking about modern culture. Simon Malpas introduces students to issues at the heart of Lyotard's work, including *modernity and the postmodern *the sublime *ethics *history and representation *art and the unpresentable *knowledge, the university and the future. Lyotard's work is impossible to dismiss or ignore for anybody who is serious about contemporary literature and culture, and this guide provides the ideal companion to the wide variety of his critical texts.
Download or read book Lyotard written by Pradeep Dhillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on postmoderism and education.
Book Synopsis Jean-François Lyotard by : Kiff Bamford
Download or read book Jean-François Lyotard written by Kiff Bamford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most important and complex French thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new critical biography, Kiff Bamford traces the multi-faceted, sometimes surprising, journey of Lyotard’s life and work. Bamford’s book is the first to consider Lyotard’s work and ideas in the wider context of his life and times. He unravels the thrust of Lyotard’s main philosophical arguments, his struggle with thinking, and his confrontation with the task of writing and thinking differently about philosophy. Bamford takes care to situate each of these in their particular context: the Algerian war; the experimental university at Vincennes; and within Lyotard’s sustained engagement with the visual arts. The philosopher’s own suspicion of easy narratives and rejection of self-determination help to frame the book. It is only by following these prescribed cautions that Bamford is able to present a compelling portrait of a challenging subject.
Book Synopsis Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing by : Kiff Bamford
Download or read book Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing written by Kiff Bamford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of the thought and writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to contemporary art and in particular performance art.
Book Synopsis Discourse, Figure by : Jean-François Lyotard
Download or read book Discourse, Figure written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. --
Download or read book Lyotard written by James D. Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-modernism and the decline of Marxism, and he made important contributions to ethics, aesthetics and political philosophy. In this authoritative introduction, Williams tracks the development of Lyotard's thought from his early writings on the libidinal economy to his more recent work on the post-modern condition. Williams argues that despite the wide-ranging character of Lyotard's writings, they are animated by a long-standing concern to develop a new theory of political action. Lyotard's productive use of avant-garde art and the aesthetics of the sublime are interpreted within this context. In the final chapters some of the main criticisms that have been levelled at Lyotard's work are outlined and assessed. A challenging but also accessible book, it will be welcomed by students and researchers in continental philosophy, literary theory and the humanities generally.
Book Synopsis Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing by : Kiff Bamford
Download or read book Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing written by Kiff Bamford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study offers a timely reconsideration of the work of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in relation to art, performance and writing. How can we write about art, whilst acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies translations of both media and temporality? That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and to which this book responds through reference to artists from the recently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths of seminal figures Marina Abramovic and Vito Acconci, and the controlled documentation of Gina Pane's actions. Through the unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the figural, his thought is brought to bear on attempts to write a history of performance art and to question the paradoxically prescriptive demand for rules to govern 're-performance'. Kiff Bamford contextualises Lyotard's writings and approach with reference to both his contemporaries, including Deleuze and Kristeva, and the contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing for the pertinence of Lyotard's provocations today.
Book Synopsis Rereading Jean-François Lyotard by : Heidi Bickis
Download or read book Rereading Jean-François Lyotard written by Heidi Bickis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Jean François Lyotard: Aesthetics by : Victor E. Taylor
Download or read book Jean François Lyotard: Aesthetics written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyotard written by Hugh J. Silverman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
