The Postmodern Condition

Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816611737
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

The Postmodern Turn

Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458795
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

History Without A Subject

Author: David Ashley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
This book, beginning with an analysis of how changes in the global economy are affecting the lives of ordinary Americans, suggests that the postmodern condition can be likened to the balkanization of culture and society and the "Brazilianization" of politics and the economy.

Postmodern Fables

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816625550
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
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, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

Author: Bran Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

Le Différend

Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816616114
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

The Inhuman

Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804720083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst

Just Gaming

Author: Jean François Lyotard
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719014741
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description

The Postmodern Urban Condition

Author: Michael J. Dear
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631209881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
This book will change the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure.

The Lyotard Reader and Guide

Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231139359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
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.