| Description |
xii, 211 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Warwick studies in philosophy and literature |
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Warwick studies in philosophy and literature.
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| Contents |
Sensus communis / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Lyotard and the problem of justice / Anne Barron -- On the critical p̀ost': Lyotard's agitated judgement / Richard Beardsworth -- The modern democratic revolution: reflections on Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition / John Keane -- Habermas vs Lyotard: modernity vs postmodernity? / Emilia Steuerman -- The postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and Lyotard / David Ingram -- C̀es petits differends': Lyotard and Horace / Geoffrey Bennington -- Pagans, perverts or primitives? Experimental justice in the empire of capital / Bill Readings -- Les immateriaux and the postmodern sublime / Paul Crowther |
| Summary |
Best known for his work The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the leading figures in contemporary French philosophy. This is the first collection of articles to offer an estimation and critique of his work. While the various chapters deal with different aspects of Lyotard's writings, they are all concerned with the question of judgement. The importance to Lyotard of judgement, and how it is to be judged, is a recurrent theme throughout the entire range of his work. It is particularly evident in his continuing engagement with the work of Kant. Lyotard's own essay, Sensus Communis, which opens this volume, investigates through Kant the presuppositions of judgement. Other essays variously consider how in his writings Lyotard has rendered problematic existing forms of aesthetic, ethical, legal and political judgement. Judging Lyotard is an important collection that will re-introduce Lyotard to English-speaking audiences |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
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Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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| Author |
Benjamin, Andrew E.
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
91030983 |
| ISBN |
0415052564 |
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0415052572 paperback |
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9780415052566 |
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9780415052573 paperback |
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