Rereading Jean-Francois Lyotard : essays on his later works / / edited by Heidi Bickis and Rob Shields

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, French - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: BickisHeidi ShieldsRob <1961->
• Note generali: First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 New and Late Encounters: An Introduction; 2 The Affective Economy of the Lyotardian Archive; 3 Lyotard's St Paul; 4 Anthro-paralogy: Antihumanism in Lyotard's Late Works; 5 The Weight of Writing: Lyotard's Anti-Aesthetic in 'À l'écrit bâté'; 6 Presentation to 'À l'écrit bâté'Lettre perpétuel - Perpetual Letter; 7 'To Burdened Writing' [À l'écrit bâté]; 8 A Late Performance: Intimate Distance (Yingmei Duan); 9 Can Sustainability be Domesticated?; 10 Oblique Views and Heterodox Spaces: Le Corbusier's Conventus ; 11 Lyotard and Irigaray on Eros, Infancy and Birth: the Dissymmetrical Horizons of Being Between12 The Politics of Creation: Lyotard, Castoriadis and Malraux; 13 Voicing Nihilism: Lyotard on Malraux; 14 Testimony and the Affect-Phrase; 15 Lyotard's 'Critical' 'Aesthetics'; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works explores the impact and relevance of Lyotard's largely undiscussed late philosophical works for contemporary theoretical debates. Each chapter within this book places Lyotard as a figure with much to offer current theoretical debates, reasserts Lyotard as an important thinker for developments in social thought, and draws out the many links between his philosophical work and broader socia
• Titolo autorizzato: Rereading Jean-Francois Lyotard
• ISBN: 1-4724-0451-3; 1-317-06570-0; 1-315-60554-6; 1-283-85970-X; 1-4094-3568-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779336603321
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