80 products were found matching your search for lyotard in 2 shops:

Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable The Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming and The Dirrerend. The Lyotard Reader is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important and significant papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman), psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it can not be readily situated within any one philosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself to debates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines the philosophical enterprise. A number of chapters in The Lyotard Reader appear for the first time in English. This is the most comprehensive collection available of Lyotard's work, work has profoundly influenced debates on the Enlightenment, on modernity, on postmodernity, on the transmission f information, on literary theory and on philosophy.

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.

Jean-François Lyotard’s later works reveal a deep suspicion of the ‘inhuman’: the process by which we are dehumanised by the forces of ‘development’ (advanced capitalism) and, in extreme cases, even find those forces planning to replace us with computer technology. Given the power wielded by ‘techno-science’, Lyotard fears for our future, and calls on us to resist the drift towards ‘inhumanism’. If we look around, however, we see that inhumanism is already with us in many forms: medical technology, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life being three obvious examples. The boundary between humanity and technology is becoming progressively more blurred, and there are many willing to defend this development, regarding it as our future. At stake in this debate is the very conception of what it means to be human. Lyotard’s question, ‘What if what is “proper” to humankind were to be inhabited by the inhuman?’, is one with critical implications for us all.

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory.Forthcoming from the MIT Press

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.

Paraesthetics' is a neologism invented by David Carroll to unlock the extra-aesthetic relationship between art and literature in the work of Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jacques Derrida.

In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory.

Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, feminism, youth and Judaism.

Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, feminism, youth and Judaism.

Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-François Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory, gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention is paid to Lyotard's repeated warnings regarding the way in which the complexity of events can be occluded in the very attempt to represent them. Indeed, through the contributors' careful and critical analysis, Lyotard's complex intellectual trajectory―all the way up to the posthumously published works The Confession of Augustine and The Misery of Philosophy―is traced in different and often conflicting manners, which bring out the different currents that traverse his writings and the sites of tension that such terms as "different," "affect," and "infancy" mark. What emerges is not a grand narrative that would organize Lyotard's life and work around one unifying idea, but multifaceted approaches that extend in new and unforeseen directions.

Les Rudiments paiens se situent a la croisee d'une metaphysique pulsionnelle (prealablement developpee dans Economie libidinale) et d'une approche pragmatique des discours (qui trouvera son apogee dans Le Differend). Disparates tant par les noms - Freud, Butor, Bloch, Guerin, Marin... - que par les domaines approches - psychanalyse, litterature, theologie, politique, semiologie... -, les chapitres qui composent ce livre se reclament cependant d'un commun " paganisme ." Inscrit dans la triple decadence de l'unite, de la finalite et de la verite, ce nom programmatique et polemique designe le " refus d'accorder a aucun discours une autorite [...] etablie une fois pour toutes sur tous les autres ." A l'instar des paiens qui affirment la multiplicite des dieux et des cultes, Lyotard affirme la multiplicite des discours et des enjeux, en se riant des pretentions totalisatrices et fondationnelles que le souci du vrai induit. En montrant que si les discours ont une force, ils le doivent moins a leur pouvoir de conviction qu'a leur puissance d'invention, Lyotard cherche non pas tant a rejeter la theorie qu'a la repenser selon une tout autre logique, tolerante aux singularites. L'intention n'a donc rien d'irrationaliste, elle est en realite toute politique. S'attaquer a la position de maitrise de la theorie, revendiquer l'inventivite, c'est ouvrir un nouveau terrain a la pratique politique en la decouplant du vrai. Demontrer l'idee d'autorite derniere, c'est affirmer la decadence de la finalite et du pouvoir central qui l'organise, c'est penser un temps ouvert a l'evenement et a l'intensite.

This book is the third of a series of five volumes that exhaustively brings together the writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) on contemporary art and artists. This collection of essays, written between 1974 and 1977 in the midst of Duchamp's rediscovery in France, was published by Editions Galilée, Paris, in 1977 and in English translation by the Lapis Press, Los Angeles, in 1990. This volume republishes the two versions face-to-face, including the drawings, diagrams, and images of the original edition. Herman Parret presents the text in a substantial introduction, and Dalia Judovitz situates it in the more general framework of Lyotardian philosophical reflection. Duchamp's TRANS/formers reconstructs Large Glass and Given, Duchamp's two major works that glorify the body in its topological conceptuality. The book introduces the question of the advent and the event of art and invites us further to consider the debt that philosophical commentary owes to the artistic gesture.

6-CD box set features philosophers of the 20th Century. The first disc contains readings of various works read by actors; the other discs feature readings by the individual philosophers of their own work. Includes readings by Jean Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Alexandre Koyre, Vladimir Jankelvitch, Etienne Gilson, Michel Foucault, Jean-Toussaint Desanti, Gilles Deleuze, Henry Corbin, Michel de Certeau, Georges Canguilhem, Henri Bergson, Raymond Aron, Louis

Talmudic scholar and postmodern philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was one of the 20th-century's most important philosophers. Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Francois Lyotard were among the thinkers most influenced by Levinas. Drawing upon both the object relations tradition in psychoanalysis, as well as the work of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, C. Fred Alford argues that postmodern ethics such as that inspired by Levinas risk devaluing ordinary human attachments in favor of relationships "without relation," as Levinas puts it. An accessible introduction to Levinas and an insightful critique of the Frankfurt School, this book will be a valuable contribution to the fields of philosophy, critical theory and psychoanalysis.

In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies.

How do states sustain international order during crises? Drawing on the political philosophy of Lyotard and through an empirical examination of the Anglo-American international order during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Bially Mattern demonstrates that states can (and do) use representational force--a forceful but non-physical form of power exercised through language--to stabilize international identity and in turn international order.

This is the first source-book for this cross-disciplinary area. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies. Bringing together statements from leading twentieth-century thinkers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Laclau and Mouffe, and with the editor's substantial introduction, this is an ideal teaching text, inspiring debate about the future of Marxism as a cultural theory.

The Assassination of Experience by Painting-Monory is the first in the Revisions series, a new collection of books presenting writings on the fine arts by well-known writers and philosophers. This first title in the series provides an English translation of Jean-Franois Lyotard's L'assassinat de L'experience par la peinture-Monory, originally published in French in 1984. The translation by Lyotard's writings on the work of the painter Jacques Monory and the accompanying essays by the series' editor, the art historian Sarah Wilson, serves to both introduce the work of this artist to an English-speaking audience and provide a historical and critical contextualization of Lyotard's commitment to writing about art.