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Phenomenology (Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

1 review
Jean-Francois Lyotard

State University of New York Press, 1991

uninspiring
How I see it, philosophy books can be inteligent and inspiring, daring you to take another leap to the world of unknown, or they can be inteligent. Main difference being that this last one is that kind of philosophy that you can almost always find on academy benches, that rather dull and uninspiring chain of thought that somehow presents itself as philosophy. Whether you think of it as ...

Postmodern Fables

3 reviews
Jean-Francois Lyotard

University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Excellent...
No wonder Lyotard (and many of the other European philosophers) have truly irritated most of the North American preachers of the TRUTH. To begin with, his style is not the old Aristotelian-based method argument but more in line with the brother's Grimm. In particular, his reply to Rorty just about made me cough up my cup of tea into the book it was that funny. The argument of objectivity is ...

The Postmodern Condition (Theory & History of Literature)

16 reviews

Manchester University Press, 1984

Post-Nuclear Philosophical Fallout
If, as William Barrett once remarked, existentialism is "philosophy for the atomic age," then the atomic age's look into the future - by way of Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition - is nothing short of a nightmarish vision of what post-nuclear philosophy would be like. If the Cold War was ultimately the product of two totalizing visions - the two remaining totalizing visions of the ...

Signed, Malraux

1 review
Jean-Francois Lyotard

University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Deconstructing Malraux
This is not biography in a traditional sense. In fact if you expect to follow thru Malraux life, you will be disappointed. Highly philosophical, and complex, the author is focusing so much on deconstructing Malraux's work and life, rather than telling us who Malraux is. Not recommended as a biographical work.

The Confession of Augustine (Cultural Memory in the Present)

1 review
Jean-FranCois Lyotard

Stanford University Press, 2000

Oh Lord thou didst show him
This is an essential reading for those interested in the confessions. Wonderful.

Libidinal Economy (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

1 review
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Athlone Press, 2000

good stuff
An important work by the late, missed and brilliant Francois Lyotard. An effective response to Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus", Lyotard almost succeeds in showing the libidinal drives underlying not only the economy but a critique of Marxism too. Here while seemingly accepting Freud's idea of the libido, Lyotard shows how much more complex and satisfying his take of society is compared to ...

Artforum, February 1981
J. Hoberman, Jean-Francois Lyotard, ..., 1981

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The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985

1 review
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Julian Pefanis, ...

Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1993

Perceiving the Modern
As a hard-core modernist, I've been puzzled by this whole postmodern phenomena, which, to me, seemed impenetrable, so the title of this book caught my eye. Further, Lyotard has been called the theoretician of the postmodern, hence this book seemed like a good place to start trying to understand the postmodern. The book contains an afterward by Wlad Godzich that I found to be extremely helpful ...

Chambre sourde: L'antiesthetique de Malraux (Incises)
Jean Francois Lyotard

Galilee, 1998

Der Widerstreit.
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Reinhold Clausjürgens

Fink (Wilhelm), 1989

Das Inhumane.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Passagen Verlag Ges.M.B.H, 2001

Das Elend der Philosophie.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Passagen Verlag Ges.M.B.H, 2004

Das postmoderne Wissen
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Passagen Verlag Ges.M.B.H, 2005

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