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Rereading Jean-François Lyotard Essays on His Later Works
240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works explores the impact and relevance of Lyotard's largely undiscussed late philosophical works for contemporary theoretical debates.... Read more
Contents: Preface; New and late encounters: an introduction, Heidi Bickis; The affective economy of the Lyotardian archive, Anthony Hudek; Lyotard’s St Paul, Matthew Pateman; Anthro-paralogy: antihumanism in Lyotard’s late works, Matthew R. McLennan; The weight of writing: Lyotard’s anti-aesthetic in ’À l’écrit bâté', Stephen Barker; Presentation to ’À l’écrit bâté' lettre perpetuel - perpetual letter, Dolorès Lyotard translated by Rob Shields; ’To Burdened Writing’ [À l’écrit bâté'], Jean-François Lyotard, translated by Stephen Barker; A late performance: intimate distance (Yingmei Duan), Kiff Bamford; Can sustainability be domesticated?, Margaret Grebowicz; Oblique views and heterodox spaces: Le Corbusier’s conventus, Rob Shields; Lyotard and Irigaray on Eros, infancy and birth: the dissymmetrical horizons of being between, Rachel Jones; The politics of creation: Lyotard, Castoriadis and Malraux, Neal Curtis; Voicing nihilism: Lyotard on Malraux, Keith Crome; Testimony and affect-phase, Ashley Woodward; Lyotard’s ’critical' 'aesthetics’, Peter W. Milne; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Heidi Bickis, University of Alberta, Canada. Rob Shields, University of Alberta, Canada.
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