Jean-François Lyotard - Böcker

Det postmoderna tillståndet utgör en återkommande referens i samtalet om vår samtid och de förutsägelser som görs om det framväxande informationssamhället har fortfarande en påtagligt kritisk potential.

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In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and...

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För drygt trettio år sedan publicerades Jean-François Lyotards La condition postmoderne, där frågan ställdes om innebörden i arvet från upplysningen. Ska det postmoderna förstås som ett brott med dess rationalitet och universalism, eller som en fo...

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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the sign...

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Lyotard is considered one of the most brilliant and influential of French post-structuralist thinkers. Published in 1974 by Minuit, Economie libidinale is, of all his work to date, the most creative in its mode of writing and in its theorizing: a ...

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Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-Franois 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 ...

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Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-Franois 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 ...

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Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-Fran ois 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...

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The first comprehensive anthology of Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide. The Lyotard Reader and Guide is designed as a one-stop companion to his thought. It covers the full range of Lyotard's work, from begin...

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The first comprehensive anthology of Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide. The Lyotard Reader and Guide is designed as a one-stop companion to his thought. It covers the full range of Lyotard's work, from begin...

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This translation of Lyotard's first book, La Phenomenologie, supplies an important link to Lyotard's more recent works. Phenomenology presents a commentary on the phenomenological movement. From the dual perspectives of a work on, and of, phenomen...

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Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmodern Condition. In this important new study he develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. In a wide-ranging discussion the author exami...

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Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the aesthe...

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This book considers the possibility of ethical political practice after deconstruction. Both authors probe the relationship of language to truth and the consequences, for ethics and politics, of any theoretical posture on this issue: 'Can we have ...

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Traces the life and career of the French novelist, describing his participation in the Spanish Civil War, command of a World War II resistance brigade, and his position as a government minister.

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Traces the life and career of the French novelist, describing his participation in the Spanish Civil War, command of a World War II resistance brigade, and his position as a government minister.

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Here is a course of action: harden, worsen, accelerate decadence. Adopt the perspective of active nihilism, exceed the mere recognition-be it depressive or admiring--of the destruction of all values. Become more and more incredulous. Push decadenc...

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Jean-Franois 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 sel...

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Jean-Franois 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 sel...

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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 s...

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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 s...

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Nobody knows how to write. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-Franois Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures ...

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Nobody knows how to write. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-Franois Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures ...

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First published in 1974, Libidinal Economy is a major work of twentieth century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal energies or intensities which he claims flow through all structures, such as ...

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This brilliant and engaging critical encounter between Jean-Franiois Lyotard and Eberhard Gruber has as its focus a single punctuation mark-the hyphen connecting 'Jew' and 'Christian' in the expression 'Judeo-Christian'. While focusing on the natu...

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Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term "postmodern" into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His "The postmodern condition" is seminal within the current debates over the relationship ...

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Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term "postmodern" into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His "The postmodern condition" is seminal within the current debates over the relationship ...

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An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming that social change emerges through ordinary people's everyday lives and struggles.

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Que peindre ? est une méditation philosophique sur l''art pictural contemporain et sur l''objet essentiel de la peinture qu''est la présence. Contrairement ÿ ce que l''on croit souvent, l''art pictural n''a pas pour objet la représentation ; i...

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Lyotard fragt in diesem Buch, wie die Künste des Sehens, der Schrift und des Tones in der eigentümlichen Entwicklung, der die Menschen unterliegen, ihre paradoxale Wahrheit auch in unserer Gegenwart bewahren können.Die Menschen werden heute durch ...

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