Jean Froncois Lyotard / Simon Malpas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malpas, Simon.

Series:

Routledge Critical Thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.

Lyotard, Jean-François.

Philosophers--France.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 impossib

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; WHY LYOTARD?; KEY IDEAS; 1 The Postmodern Condition; 2 Art, the sublime and the postmodern; 3 Phrases and the differend: Lyotard's politics; 4 History, politics and representation; 5 Art, the inhuman and the event; 6 The task of the critic: rewriting modernity; AFTER LYOTARD; FURTHER READING; Works cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781134520077

1134520077

9781280108273

1280108274

9780203986905

0203986903

OCLC:

252954328