Lyotard Reader

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.

Author: Andrew Benjamin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01/08/1991
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780631163398

About the Author

Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words (1989) and, with C. Norris, What is Deconstruction? (1989). He is the editor of several books, including Poststructuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1988).

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