Jean-Francois Lyotard

Readings in Infancy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Harvey, Robert; Bamford, Kiff

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological. Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume - with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford - contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350167377
• Artikelnr.: 66444453

Autorenporträt

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. He was the author of classic philosophical texts such as Discourse, Figure; Libidinal Economy; The Differend and The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University
USA) Infans
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Mary Lydon Return: Joyce
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts. Prescription: Kafka
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans Christopher Fynsk Survivor: Arendt
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts Words: Sartre
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Jeffrey Mehlman Disorder: Valéry
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Robert Harvey Voices: Freud
J-Fr. Lyotard
trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele Afterword
Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University
UK) Notes Bibliography of Works by J-Fr. Lyotard in English Translation Index