Lyotard: Writing the Event - Couverture souple

Bennington, Geoffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719022886 ISBN 13 : 9780719022883

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 1989

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lyotard has been associated primarily in the English-speaking world with the 'postmodern debate', but his work is of a breadth and importance beyond what this would suggest. This book, the first general introduction to Lyotard's work to appear in any language, presents the arguments which mark the crucial moments of a complex career, taking as its guiding thread Lyotard's preoccupation with the event (perhaps the major concern of recent French thought) through his reflections on desire, production, justice and language. Lyotard's fundamental drive to account for the event takes his work through phenomenology, psychoanalysis, politics and art to a general and ambitious 'philosophy of sentences' which bears comparision with the work of Jacques Derrida. The more obviously 'political' aspects of Lyotard's writing are discussed and situated as integral to Lyotard's view of philosophy as such.

Biographie de l'auteur

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author of a dozen books of philosophy and literary theory, and translator of work by contemporary French thinkers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719022886
• ISBN 13: 9780719022883
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 189
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible