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Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Interviews and Debates

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Interviews and Debates

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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.

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217

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350081345

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9781350081345

Phenomenology

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Phenomenology

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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, phenomenology, Lyotard's text profiles the different aspects of phenomenology, focusing particularly on the writings of Hegel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Tran Duc Thao. Phenomenology marks a particular episode in Lyotard's reflections on the "philosophical project" and is emblematic of his critical reflections on philosophy's involvements in routine, daily commitments. Like Merleau-Ponty, in this work Lyotard eliminates philosophy as a "separate existence." Beyond offering an account of certain phenomenological themes, Lyotard's commentary explicates phenomenology's relevance to psychology, sociology, and history.

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160

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SUNY Press

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079140806X

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9780791408063

Why Philosophize?

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Why Philosophize?

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne" -- back cover.

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133

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Polity

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0745670725

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9780745670720

Readings in Infancy

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Readings in Infancy

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological. Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume – with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford – contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.

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185

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350167371

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9781350167377

Libidinal Economy

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Libidinal Economy

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Lyotard is considered one of the most brilliant and influential of French post-structuralist thinkers. Published in 1974 by Minuit, Économie libidinale is, of all his work to date, the most creative in its mode of writing and in its theorizing: a stunning, dense, brilliant piece in which Lyotard, ranging from Marxist and Freudian theory to contemporary arts, argues that political economy is charged with passions and, reciprocally, that passions are infused with the political.

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316

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Indiana University Press

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0253207282

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9780253207289

The Inhuman

Reflections on Time

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Inhuman

Reflections on Time

By: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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 the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmodernity.

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224

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Polity

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0745612385

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9780745612386

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Why Philosophize?

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Readings in Infancy

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Libidinal Economy

Libidinal Economy

The Inhuman

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