Libidinal Economy - Couverture souple

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474241123 ISBN 13 : 9781474241120

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

First published in 1974, Libidinal Economy is a major work of twentieth century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal 'energies' or 'intensities' which he claims flow through all structures, such as the human body and political or social events. He uses this idea to interpret a diverse range of subjects including political economy, Marxism, sexual politics, semiotics and psychoanalysis. Lyotard also carries out a broad critique of philosophies of desire, as expounded by Deleuze and Guattari, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and de Sade.

Translated by Iain Hamilton Grant.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. He was the author of classic philosophical texts such as Discourse, Figure; Libidinal Economy; The Differend and The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge.

Iain Hamilton Grant is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He has written widely on post-Kantian European philosophy and is translator of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474241123
• ISBN 13: 9781474241120
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible