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The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985

The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985 more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Julian Pefanis (Editor)

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Assasination of Experience by Painting - Monory/L'Assassinat de L'Experience Par La Peinture - Monory: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Monory

Assasination of Experience by Painting - Monory/L'Assassinat de L'Experience Par La Peinture - Monory: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Monory more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Sarah Wilson, Jacques Monory (Illustrator)

The Assassination of Experience by Painting-Jacque Monory is the first in the revisions series, a collection of book presenting the interest and writings on the fine arts by well-known writers and philosophers. The translation of Lyotard's writing on the work of Jacques Monory and the accompanying essays by the series' editor, the art historian ...

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Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics

Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Robert Harvey (Translator)

In this, one of the last published books planned by one of the major cultural philosophers of our time, Lyotard addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux s reflections on art and literature. The result, more than a sequel to Lyotard s acclaimed biography SignZ Malraux, tells us as much about Lyotard and his critical concerns ...

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Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event more books like this

by Geoffrey Bennington, Jean-Francois Lyotard

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A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds

A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Peggy Kamuf (Editor), Professor Jacques Derrida

This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.

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Signed, Malraux

Signed, Malraux more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Robert Harvey (Translator)

Andre Malraux (1901-1976) was a swashbuckling character -- a self-invented adventurer, a onetime smuggler of artifacts, a fighter in the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance, an artist and thinker. He has come to epitomize the committed writer, one who not only wrote about revolution but who, when necessary, laid down his pen to pick up a ...

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The Lyotard Reader

The Lyotard Reader more books like this

by Andrew Benjamin, JD, PhD (Editor), Jean-Francois Lyotard

"The Lyotard Reader" is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting, psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it cannot be readily situated within any one ...

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Libidinal economy

Libidinal economy more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

This is a philosophical development of the Freudian concept of "libidinal economy" and one of Lyotard's most important works. In part a response to Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (English translation Athlone, 1984), it can also be seen as culminating a line of modern thought ranging from de Sade, Nietzsche and Bataille, to Deleuze, ...

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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Elizabeth Rottenberg (Translator)

Philosophical aesthetics have seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that descriptions of what used to be seen as specific to aesthetic experience can instead be viewed as a general model for human cognition. In this revival, no text in the classical corpus of ...

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Heidegger and "The Jews"

Heidegger and "The Jews" more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Postmodern Fables

Postmodern Fables more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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, ...

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Toward the Postmodern more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

This book brings together previously unpublished essays by one of the most important philosophers of the last three decades of the 20th century. This authorised compilation of 13 essays reflect the main stages of Lyotard's thought - the libidinal, the pagan, and the intractable - leading toward his account of the post-modern in contemporary ...

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Phenomenology more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Lyotard Reader and Guide more books like this

by Jean Francois Lyotard, Professor Keith Crome (Editor), Professor James Williams (Editor)

"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, ...

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The Politics of Prose: Essay on Sartre more books like this

by Denis Hollier, Professor Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator), Jean-Francois Lyotard (Designer)

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Lesson of Darkness

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Sam Francis, Geoggrey Bennington (Translator)

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The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory more books like this

by Professor Chris Rojek (Editor), Jean-Francois Lyotard, Professor Bryan S Turner (Editor)

Jean-Francois Lyotard is widely considered to be the father of postmodernism and his ideas have influenced research and debate across many fields. This edited collection of essays is the first sociological assessment of his work. It brings together leading sociologists representing a wide range of interdisciplinary interests to tackle many of ...

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The Hyphen more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Eberhard Gruber, Michael Naas (Translator)

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 nature, meaning, and function of this hyphen, the authors are able to analyse many of the essential ...

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Pacific Wall

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Cecile Lindsay (Translator)

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The Confession of Augustine more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Beardsworth (Translator)

This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century engages Augustine s Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training, ...

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The Lyotard Reader more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

"The Lyotard Reader" is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting, psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it cannot be readily situated within any one ...

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Reversible Destiny more books like this

by Arakawa, Madeline Gins, Jean-Francois Lyotard (Introduction by)

Over the last three decades, the artists Arakawa (b 1936) and Madeline Gins (b 1941) have created a body of work which includes "The Mechanism of Meaning", a cycle of 83 mixed-media paintings begun in 1963 and completed, for the most part, by 1973. The piece covers a variety of issues, including the nature of perception, how human beings function ...

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Signe Malraux more books like this

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Lo Inhumano

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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