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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974554803321

Titolo

Judging Lyotard / / edited by Andrew Benjamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-94062-9

1-134-94063-7

1-282-77730-0

9786612777301

0-203-00701-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 211 p

Collana

Warwick studies in philosophy and literature

Altri autori (Persone)

BenjaminAndrew E

Disciplina

194

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Sensus communis / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- 2. Lyotard and the problem of justice / Anne Barron -- 3. On the critical 'post' : Lyotard's agitated judgement / Richard Beardsworth -- 4. The modern democratic revolution : reflections on Lyotard's The postmodern condition / John Keane -- 5. Habermas vs Lyotard : modernity vs postmodernity / Emilia Steuerman -- 6. The postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and Lyotard / David Ingram -- 7. 'Ces petits differends' : Lyotard and Horace / Geoffrey Bennington -- 8. Pagans, perverts or primitives? : experimental justice in the empire of capital / Bill Readings -- 9. Les immateriaux and the postmodern sublime / Paul Crowther.

Sommario/riassunto

The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and included Lyotard's important essay on Sensus Communis.