The Postmodern Condition

The Postmodern Condition

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780816611737

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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.


The Inhuman

The Inhuman

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780804720083

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Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst


Libidinal Economy

Libidinal Economy

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780826477002

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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.


Postmodern Fables

Postmodern Fables

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780816625550

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This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.


Le Différend

Le Différend

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780816616114

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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.


Discourse, Figure

Discourse, Figure

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 0816645655

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Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. --


Just Gaming

Just Gaming

Author: Jean François Lyotard

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780719014741

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Rereading Jean-François Lyotard

Rereading Jean-François Lyotard

Author: Heidi Bickis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1317065700

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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.


Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1350081329

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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.


Why Philosophize?

Why Philosophize?

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0745679978

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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.