Postmodern Fables - Hardcover

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816625549 ISBN 13: 9780816625543

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1997

Synopsis

This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages," "System Fantasies," "Concealments," and "Crypts," Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions of subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.

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About the Author

Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the principal French philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Best known for having coined the term "postmodern," he is the author of numerous works, including The Postmodern Condition (Minnesota, 1984), The Differend (Minnesota, 1988), Heidegger and "the jews" (Minnesota, 1990), and The Postmodern Explained (Minnesota, 1992). Lyotard is professor emeritus at the University of Parfis and professor of French at Emory University.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816625549
• ISBN 13: 9780816625543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272