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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450883303321

Autore

Williams James <1965, >

Titolo

Lyotard and the political / / James Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

9786612777257

1-282-77725-4

1-134-67127-X

0-203-00490-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Thinking the political

Disciplina

320/.092

Soggetti

State, The

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction. Lyotard on Malraux: nihilism, art and politics; Impasse; Libidinal Economy and nihilism; Libidinal Economy and capital; The turn to judgement; The sublime and politics; Conclusion. A withdrawal from the political?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lyotard and the Political is the first book to consider the full range of the political thought of the French philosopher François Lyotard and its broader implications for an understanding of the political. James Williams clearly and carefully traces the development of Lyotard's thought from his early Marxist essays on the Algerian struggle for independence to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud. This is compared with Lyotard's later, highly influential writings on the politics of desire and his attempts to base a postmodern political discourse on the sublime. An indispens