| Inhuman: Reflections on Time Contributor(s): Lyotard, Jean-François (Author), Bennington, Geoffrey (Translator), Bowlby, Rachel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804720088 ISBN-13: 9780804720083 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 Annotation: In this book, Lyotard addresses an enormous variety of topics, including the human body; modernist and postmodernist art, literature, and music; the discourse of philosophy; time and memory; space, the city, and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. The analysis is enriched throughout by Lyotard's frequent references to such thinkers as Kant, Heidegger, Adorno, and Derrida. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 115 |
| LCCN: 91066838 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.06" W x 9.08" (0.84 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean-Fran ois Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmodern Condition. In this important new study he develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. In a wide-ranging discussion the author examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno, and Derrida and looks at the works of modernist and postmodernist artists such as C zanne, Debussy, and Boulez. Lyotard addresses issues such as time and memory, the sublime and the avant-garde, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Throughout his discussion he considers the close but problematic links between modernity, progress, and humanity, and the transition to postmodernity. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy, and the arts, to bear witness to and explain this difficult transition. This important contribution to aesthetic and philosophical debates will be of great interest to students in philosophy, literary, and cultural theory and politics. |