Minima Memoria In the Wake of Jean-Fran}}ois Lyotard [Hardcover]

Minima Memoriaattests to the impact of the works of Jean-Fran?ois 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 trajectoryall the way up to the posthumously published worksThe Confession of AugustineandThe Misery of Philosophyis 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.Minima Memoriaattests to the impact of the works of Jean-Fran?ois 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.Claire Nouvet is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University, where she is Fellow in the Psychoanalytic Institute. She is editor ofLiterature and the Ethical Question(1991). Zrinka Stahuljak is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author ofBloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship and Metaphor(2005). Kent Still is a Brittain Fellow in the Department of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech and co-editor ofAddressing Levinas(2005). lÂ