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…

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…

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…

* 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…

Here leading experts tackle questions about the writings on justice and politics of difference, on feminism, youth and Judaism by 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…

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…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 2,3, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Neubiberg (Fakultat fur Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Interdisziplinares Seminar Soziologie/ Politische Theorie: Kritische…