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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806816703321

Autore

Readings Bill <1960->

Titolo

Introducing Lyotard : art and politics / / Bill Readings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-93670-2

1-134-93671-0

1-283-83765-X

9786610463718

1-280-46371-6

0-203-00223-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Critics of the twentieth century

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Deconstruction

Postmodernism

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. 174-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; INTRODUCING LYOTARD; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Glossary; Mobile supplement I: after the event; 1: Figure; 2: Postmodernity and narrative; 3: Politics and Ethics; Mobile supplement II: work; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermin