{"product_id":"the-lyotard-reader-isbn-9780631163398","title":"The Lyotard Reader","description":"Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable \u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dirrerend\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important and significant papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman), psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it can not be readily situated within any one philosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself to debates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines the philosophical enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA number of chapters in \u003ci\u003eThe Lyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e appear for the first time in English. This is the most comprehensive collection available of Lyotard's work, work has profoundly influenced debates on the Enlightenment, on modernity, on postmodernity, on the transmission f information, on literary theory and on philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e  Foreword by Jean-Francois Lyotard. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnd So Weiter\u003c\/i\u003e: In Lieu of an Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Tensor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Dream-Work Does Not Think.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Passages from \u003ci\u003eLe Mur du Pacigique\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Figure Foreclosed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Lessons in Paganism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Beyond Representation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Acinema.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Scapeland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Anamnesis of the Visible, or Candour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Newman: The Instant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Story of Ruth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Levinas' Logic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Universal history and Cultural Differences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Discussions, or Phrasing ‘after Auschwitz'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Sign of History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect bibliography of English Translations of Lyotard's Writings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  ‘Andrew Benjamin asks me for a short – very short – foreword for this \u003ci\u003eLyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, nothing much, only four or five pages. Just like that , quite casually. As though it was the most natural thing in the world. But there's nothing natural at all about this \u003ci\u003eLyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, or about the idea that Lyotard himself should write a foreword for the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e. You say \u003ci\u003eforeword.\u003c\/i\u003e Let him say a word before you read his words. A key word that gives the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e, a key to the words in the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e ...' \u003ci\u003eJean- Reader Francois Lyotard from the foreword\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTranslation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and, with C. Norris, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Deconstruction?\u003c\/i\u003e (1989). He is the editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003ePoststructuralist Classics\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and \u003ci\u003eProblems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e  Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable \u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dirrerend\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important and significant papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman), psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it can not be readily situated within any one philosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself to debates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines the philosophical enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA number of chapters in \u003ci\u003eThe Lyotard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e appear for the first time in English. This is the most comprehensive collection available of Lyotard's work, work has profoundly influenced debates on the Enlightenment, on modernity, on postmodernity, on the transmission f information, on literary theory and on philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990281961701,"sku":"NP9780631163398","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631163398.jpg?v=1761787188","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-lyotard-reader-isbn-9780631163398","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}