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    The Postmodern Condition

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Simon Malpas

    An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Simon Malpas

    An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Kiff Bamford

    Kiff Bamford traces the circuitous journey of Jean-Francois Lyotard life and work, unravelling the thrust of Lyotard’s main philosophical arguments, his struggle with thinking and his confrontation with the task…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This three-volume set is a collection of key critical responses by leading scholars to the philosophical and theoretical writings of the late postmodern philosopher.

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    Libidinal Economy

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a…

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    Traversals of Affect: On Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard’s corpus and accounts for Lyotard’s crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard’s…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard: Pedagogies of Affect

    Kirsten Locke

    This book gives an introduction to Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) as an educational thinker whose philosophical encounters with politics and art offer a radical reconsideration of the aims of education and…

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    Minima Memoria: In the Wake of Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-Francois Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works…

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    Political Writings

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    The political writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard, the prophet of the postmodern , are presented here as both the missing dimension of his work and the key to understanding his position…

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    The Libidinal Economy

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Published in 1974 by Minuit, Economie libidinale is, of all his work to date, the most creative in its mode of writing and in its theorizing: a stunning, dense, brilliant…

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    Heidegger And The Jews

    Jean-Francois Lyotard,Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Two interrelated essays which address the debate concerning Heidegger’s relationship to Nazism. In the first, Lyotard establishes the theme of the outsider by placing the jews in lower case -…

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    Que peindre?/What to Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren

    Jean-Francois Lyotard,Jean-Francois Lyotard

    The texts focus on three artists with widely divergent aesthetic orientations: the colorist-draftsman Valerio Adami, the conceptual metaphysician Shusaku Arakawa, and Daniel Buren, the pragmatist of the invisible.

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    Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Enthusiasm is Lyotard’s most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime.

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    Miscellaneous Texts, Volume I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Volume I of Lyotard’s Miscellaneous Texts on contemporary art and artists, Aesthetics and Theory of Art, contains nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. They are published…

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    Miscellaneous Texts: Aesthetics and Theory of Art and Contemporary Artists

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Volume II of Lyotard’s Miscellaneous Texts, Contemporary Artists, gathers thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary artists.

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    Differend: Phrases in Dispute

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

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    The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This analysis of postmodernity 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…

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    Why Philosophize?

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    * Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most influential philosophers of the last fifty years and his book, The Postmodern Condition, was an international bestseller. * This short and very…

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    Why Philosophize?

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    * Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most influential philosophers of the last fifty years and his book, The Postmodern Condition, was an international bestseller. * This short and very…

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    The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the…

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    The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory

    Here leading experts tackle questions about the writings on justice and politics of diference, on feminism, youth and judaism by Jean-Francois Lyotard who is still considered to be the father…

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    The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory

    Here leading experts tackle questions about the writings on justice and politics of difference, on feminism, youth and Judaism by Jean-Francois Lyotard.

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    Postmodern Fables

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This 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…

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    Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This specially-priced set includes all seven volumes of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists.

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    Rereading Jean-Francois Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works

    Heidi Bickis

    What does Lyotard’s thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, confession and biography, this book explores the impact…

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    Soundproof Room: Malraux’s Anti-Aesthetics

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Lyotard addresses Malraux’s reflections on art and literature. The book gives us Lyotard’s final thoughts on his study of the critical, disruptive possibilities of art and of the relation between…

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    Driftworks

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-Francois Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the figural and representation, silence and libidinal energy.

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    Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, with no text in the classical corpus more frequently discussed than the complex paragraphs inserted into this book as…

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    Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, with no text in the classical corpus more frequently discussed than the complex paragraphs inserted into Kant’s Critique of…

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    Soundproof Room: Malraux’s Anti-Aesthetics

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Lyotard addresses Malraux’s reflections on art and literature. The book gives us Lyotard’s final thoughts on his study of the critical, disruptive possibilities of art and of the relation between…

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    The Confession of Augustine

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Left unfinished at the time of Lyotard’s death, this is the final testament of a major philosopher, his last thoughts on the projects of philosophy and phenomenology. Here the philosopher…

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    Miscellaneous Texts: Aesthetics and Theory of Art and Contemporary Artists

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Specially priced two-volume set of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s Miscellaneous Texts on contemporary art and artists.

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    Les Transformateurs Duchamp / Duchamp’s TRANS/formers

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This collection of essays, written between 1974 and 1977 in the midst of Duchamp’s rediscovery in France, was published by Editions Galilee, Paris, in 1977 and in English translation by…

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    Sam Francis. Lecon De Tenebres / Sam Francis. Lesson of Darkness: ..Like the Paintings of a Blind Man…

    The second volume in the series Jean-Fran ois Lyotard-Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists introduces forty-two poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis…

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    The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    In this volume, the plastic universe of Monory and the aesthetic meditations of Lyotard are in perfect symbiosis.

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    Discourse, Figure

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Originally published: Discours, figure. Paris: Klincksieck, 1971.

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    Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Enthusiasm is Lyotard’s most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime.

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    A Socialisme ou Barbarie Anthology

    Cornelius Castoriadis, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Claude Lefort

    Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-67) was a revolutionary group whose journal of the same name helped inspire France's May '68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This Anthology, for…

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    Of the Sublime: Presence in Question: Essays by Jean-Francois Courtine, Michel Deguy, Eliane Escoubas, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Louis Marin, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacob Rogozinski

    Today, the sublime has again become the focus of sustained reconsideration, but now for its epistemological and ontological-or presentational-aspects. As an unmasterable excess of beauty, the sublime marks the limits…

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    The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    The author is one of Europe’s foremost philosophers. His earlier work The Postmodern Condition is widely regarded as a modern classic. This book develops his analysis of the phenomenon of…

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    Phenomenology

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This translation of Lyotard’s first book, La Phenomenologie, supplies an important link to Lyotard’s more recent works. Phenomenology presents a commentary on the phenomenological movement. From the dual perspectives of…

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    Phenomenology

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    This translation of Lyotard’s first book, La Phenomenologie, supplies an important link to Lyotard’s more recent works. Phenomenology presents a commentary on the phenomenological movement. From the dual perspectives of…

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    Toward the Postmodern

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Brings together various essays by Lyotard. This compilation reflects various stages of his thought - the libidinal, the pagan, and the intractable - leading toward his account of the post-modern…

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    The Hyphen: Between Judaism and Christianity

    Jean-Francois Lyotard,Eberhard Gruber

    Analyses various differences between Judaism and Christianity, as well as significant historical and political consequences of these differences from the Roman Empire to the Shoah. This book begins with a…

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    Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

    The first volume in the new series Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921-2006). Originally…

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