| Gender After Lyotard Contributor(s): Grebowicz, Margret (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791469565 ISBN-13: 9780791469569 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Examines Lyotard's writings in light of contemporary feminist theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2006003065 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Gender Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.06" W x 9.01" (0.79 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The revolutionary French thinker Jean-François Lyotard indicates in many of his writings that one of the most significant philosophical problems is the problem of gender. In spite of this, feminist thinkers in both the continental and Anglo-American traditions have largely ignored his work, perhaps because his approach to the question of gender is unsystematic, fluid, and difficult. This volume attempts to situate the central concerns of contemporary feminist theory--aesthetics, embodiment, performance, sexual difference, ethics, testimony--within Lyotard's writings, to show that these concerns have always been there. Contributors discuss film theory, body modification, feminist critiques of science, postholocaust art, the feminine sublime, and theater. As a whole, the book serves as a robust meditation on the nature of the political as understood by Lyotard, and demonstrates the many different ways in which feminist concerns are taken up in discussions regarding the nature of the political in contemporary continental thought. An afterword by James Williams--one of the world's leading Lyotard commentators--is included. |