1st Edition

Introducing Lyotard Art and Politics

By Bill Readings Copyright 1991
218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Part I Mobile supplement I: after the event; Chapter 1 Figure; Chapter 2 Postmodernity and narrative; Chapter 3 Politics and ethics; Part II Mobile supplement II: work Notes Bibliography INDEX;

Biography

Bill Readings is Professeur Agrégé in the Département de littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal.