| Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics Contributor(s): Readings, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415055369 ISBN-13: 9780415055369 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: The surge of interest in Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings has pushed him into the centre of debate on the postmodern. His willingness to question the political and to investigate the intersection of art and politics undermines the charge that deconstruction has abdicated its political reponsibility. This introduction, by discussing the entire range of Lyotard's writing, situates his interest in the postmodern in terms of a larger project of rethinking the politics of representation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 90-32992 |
| Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.45" W x 8.49" (0.63 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation. |