| Lyotard and the Political Contributor(s): Williams, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415183480 ISBN-13: 9780415183482 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: "Lyotard and the Political" is the first book to consider the full range of the French philosopher Francois Lyotard's political thought and its broader implications. Author James Williams clearly and carefully traces the development of Lyotard's thought from his early Marxist essays on the Algerian struggle for independence to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud. This book explains why Lyotard lost his belief in revolutionary politics and seeks to draw out the positive and negative consequences of this loss. Encompassing all of Lyotard's thought, early and late, the book situates his work in terms of the dominant political and philosophical positions of the twentieth century.Williams clearly explains the relationship between Lyotard's thought and the thought of Kant, Heidegger, and Deleuze. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.092 |
| LCCN: 99032750 |
| Series: Thinking the Political |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.36" W x 9.5" (0.89 lbs) 164 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Lyotard and the Political is the first book to consider the full range of the political thought of the French philosopher Fran ois Lyotard and its broader implications for an understanding of the political. James Williams clearly and carefully traces the development of Lyotard's thought from his early Marxist essays on the Algerian struggle for independence to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud. This is compared with Lyotard's later, highly influental writings on the politics of desire and his attempts to base a postmodern political discourse on the sublime. An indispensable work for all who are interested in modern continental philosophy, Lyotard and the Political offers the first systematic analysis of the political dimension of the work of one of the most controversial and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Also available in this series: Lacan and the Political Pb: 0-415-17187-3: 12.99 Heidegger and the Political Pb:0-415-13064-6: 12.99 Derrida and the Political Pb: 0-415-10967-1: 13.99 Nietzche and the Political Pb: 0-41510069-0: 12.99 Foucault and the Political Pb: 0-415-10066-6: 12.99 |