To ask other readers questions about The Lyotard Reader , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Lyotard Reader. Aug 10, Julie rated it it was ok. I found but two of the essays of this dense and chewy book helpful.
That said, the two were quite good on the topics they presented; the challenge that the 'negative dialectic' presents for the project of modernism represented by the event of Auschwitz, and a second writing by Lyotard on aesthetics dynamics in the use and uses of dramatic space. The essays in this reader are translated from Lyotard's original works.
I will attmempt to essay further on these topics for this review at a later date I found but two of the essays of this dense and chewy book helpful. I will attmempt to essay further on these topics for this review at a later date. A Anders rated it really liked it Mar 29, Roger McKeon rated it it was amazing Apr 08, Gregory Steel rated it it was amazing Oct 09, Lou D rated it it was amazing Jul 29, Kevin Holden rated it it was amazing Feb 17, Emile Bojesen rated it really liked it Jul 25, His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics.
This volume presents a diverse selection of interviews, conversations and debates which relate to the five decades of his working life, both as a political militant, experimental philosopher and teacher. Including hard-to-find interviews and previously untranslated material, this is the first time that interviews with Lyotard have been presented as a collection. Key concepts from Lyotard's thought — the differend, the postmodern, the immaterial — are debated and discussed across different time periods, prompted by specific contexts and provocations.
In addition there are debates with other thinkers, including Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which may be less familiar to an Anglophone audience. These debates and interviews help to contextualise Lyotard, highlighting the importance of Marx, Freud, Kant and Wittgenstein, in addition to the Jewish thought which accompanies the questions of silence, justice and presence that pervades Lyotard's thinking.
However, while its importance for 19th-century philosophy has been widely acknowledged, scholars have often overlooked its far-reaching influence on 20th-century thought. Lyotard's mention of mountains here is a reference Just Gaming.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The Lyotard Reader and Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University It is a sad fact that some readers of The Postmodern Condition quite failed to see the irony in Lyotard's account of changes in knowledge, imagining that he was actually advocating the very changes The Lyotard reader and guide. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lyotard, J. He pays close attention to the lyotare forces at work in occupied Algeria, arguing that it is in the economic interests of France to keep Algerians in a state of underdevelopment and poverty. Also forthcoming as Vol. Paganism suggests that there are juwt differences in the order of things, and that we must take things on their jhst terms without attempting to reduce them to universals.
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