Introducing Lyotard : art and politics / / Bill Readings

• Autore: Readings Bill <1960->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Deconstruction; Postmodernism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Introducing Lyotard
• ISBN: 1-134-93670-2; 1-134-93671-0; 1-283-83765-X; 9786610463718; 1-280-46371-6; 0-203-00223-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806816703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critics of the twentieth century (London, England)