Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the Sublime [Hardcover]

'A valuable and timely assessment ... an engaging reading experience.' - Critical and Cultural TheoryHugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University. He is also Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature as well as Chief Editor of Routledge's Continental Philosophy series.Jean-Franois Lyotard, the highly influential twentieth-century philosopher of the postmodern, has had an enormous impact on the course and commitment of contemporary philosophy. Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime is a thoroughgoing reassessment of his extraordinary legacy and contribution to contemporary cultural, political, ethical, and aesthetic theory, and an indispenable guide to key issues in his philosophy. Fifteen distinguished scholars have contributed new, original essays examining the main themes in Lyotard's work with a focus on the special intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and the experience of the sublime in art. The volume includes an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Lyotard, previously unpublished photographs of Lyotard, and an incisive essay by Lyotard himself on the philosophical significance of Freud's case of Emma.Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts Introduction Jean-Franois Lyotard- Between Politics and Aesthetics: Hugh J. Silverman I. (Ex)citing Philosophy 1. Emma: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Jean-Franois Lyotard II. Conversations and Differends 2. Conversations in Postmodern Hermeneutics: Shaun Gallagher 3. Lyotard, Bakhtin, and Radical Heterogeneity: Fred Evans 4. Lyotard, Levinas, and the Phrasing of the Ethical: James Hatley 5. Lyotard, Gadamer, and the Relation Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Gary E. Aylesworth 6. Lyotard, Nancy, and the Myth of Interruption: Michael Naas 7. Lyotard, Frank, and the LimlóÝ