| Jean-François Lyotard Contributor(s): Malpas, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415256151 ISBN-13: 9780415256155 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: This is an essential guide to an thinker. Frederic Jameson sees Lyotard as responding to a contemporary "crisis of representation" in the sciences -- a crisis which calls into question "an essentially realistic epistemology, which conceives of representation as the reproduction, for subjectivity, of an objectivity that lies outside it -- projects a mirror theory of knowledge and art, whose fundamental evaluative categories are those of adequacy, accuracy, and Truth itself." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2002068187 |
| Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.14" W x 7.94" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean-François Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between knowledge, art, politics and history, in ways that offer radical new possibilities for thinking about modern culture. |