The Lyotard Reader [Paperback]

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.Foreword by Jean-Francois Lyotard.

Und So Weiter: In Lieu of an Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

1. The Tensor.

2. The Dream-Work Does Not Think.

3. Passages from Le Mur du Pacigique.

4. Figure Foreclosed.

5. One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles.

6. Lessons in Paganism.

7. Beyond Representation.

8. Acinema.

9. Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity.

10. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.

11. Scapeland.

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