The Postmodern Condition

The Postmodern Condition
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1984
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

The Postmodern Turn

The Postmodern Turn
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1994-11-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521458795

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The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

History Without A Subject

History Without A Subject
Author: David Ashley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429979649

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This book, beginning with an analysis of how changes in the global economy are affecting the lives of ordinary Americans, suggests that the postmodern condition can be likened to the balkanization of culture and society and the "Brazilianization" of politics and the economy.

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction
Author: Bran Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521861578

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A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

The Inhuman

The Inhuman
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1991
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804720083

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Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst

Postmodern Fables

Postmodern Fables
Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816625550

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This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism 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 philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.

Le Différend

Le Différend
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1988
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816616114

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In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

The Philosophy of Information

The Philosophy of Information
Author: Luciano Floridi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191655643

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Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for this new area of research. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information.

The Lyotard Reader and Guide

The Lyotard Reader and Guide
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231139359

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The Lyotard Reader and Guide is a one-stop companion to Lyotard's thought. It covers the full range of his works, from his three main books (Discours, figure; Libidinal Economy; and The Differend) and up to his influential essays in The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables. The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.

The Postmodern Explained

The Postmodern Explained
Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816622115

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A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers, including the actual children of some of Lyotard's colleagues, that inform the trajectory of his thinking in the period before The Postmodern Condition through The Differend.