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Political writings / Jean-François Lyotard ; translated by Bill Readings and Kevin Paul Geiman ; foreword and notes by Bill Readings.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : UCL Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: xxvi, 352 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1857281284
  • 9781857281286
  • 1857281292
  • 9781857281293
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. English. 1993
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN51 .L94 1993eb
Contents:
Foreword: The End of the Political / Bill Readings -- Part I. Intellectuals : -- 1. Tomb of the Intellectual -- 2. The Differend -- 3. For a Cultural Nonpolicy -- 4. New Technologies -- 5. Wittgenstein "After" -- 6. Intellectual Fashions -- 7. A Svelte Appendix to the Postmodern Question -- Part II. Students : -- 8. Dead Letter -- 9. Preamble to a Charter -- 10. Nanterre, Here, Now -- 11. March 23 -- 12. Concerning the Vincennes Psychoanalysis Department -- 13. Endurance and the Profession -- 14. Ersiegerungen -- Part III. Big brothers : -- 15. Born in 1925 -- 16. A Podium without a Podium: Television according to J.-F. Lyotard -- 17. Oikos -- 18. The General Line -- 19. The Wall, the Gulf, and the Sun: A Fable -- Part IV. More "Jews" : -- 20. German Guilt -- 21. Heidegger and "the jews": A Conference in Vienna and Freiburg -- 22. The Grip (Mainmise) -- 23. Europe, the Jews, and the Book -- Part V. Algerians : -- 24. The Name of Algeria -- 25. The Situation in North Africa -- 26. The North African Bourgeoisie -- 27. A New Phase in the Algerian Question -- 28. Algerian Contradictions Exposed -- 29. The "Counterrevolutionary" War, Colonial Society, and de Gaulle -- 30. The Social Content of the Algerian Struggle -- 31. The State and Politics in the France of 1960 -- 32. Gaullism and Algeria -- 33. Algeria Seven Years After -- 34. Algeria Evacuated..
Summary: "Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term "postmodern" into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His "The postmodern condition" is seminal within the current debates over the relationship of theory and epistemology to history and political practice. Available for the first time in translation this collection of Lyotard's political writings gives new insight into the political motivation implicit in hte arguments of this classic work."--Back cover.
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Also published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: The End of the Political / Bill Readings -- Part I. Intellectuals : -- 1. Tomb of the Intellectual -- 2. The Differend -- 3. For a Cultural Nonpolicy -- 4. New Technologies -- 5. Wittgenstein "After" -- 6. Intellectual Fashions -- 7. A Svelte Appendix to the Postmodern Question -- Part II. Students : -- 8. Dead Letter -- 9. Preamble to a Charter -- 10. Nanterre, Here, Now -- 11. March 23 -- 12. Concerning the Vincennes Psychoanalysis Department -- 13. Endurance and the Profession -- 14. Ersiegerungen -- Part III. Big brothers : -- 15. Born in 1925 -- 16. A Podium without a Podium: Television according to J.-F. Lyotard -- 17. Oikos -- 18. The General Line -- 19. The Wall, the Gulf, and the Sun: A Fable -- Part IV. More "Jews" : -- 20. German Guilt -- 21. Heidegger and "the jews": A Conference in Vienna and Freiburg -- 22. The Grip (Mainmise) -- 23. Europe, the Jews, and the Book -- Part V. Algerians : -- 24. The Name of Algeria -- 25. The Situation in North Africa -- 26. The North African Bourgeoisie -- 27. A New Phase in the Algerian Question -- 28. Algerian Contradictions Exposed -- 29. The "Counterrevolutionary" War, Colonial Society, and de Gaulle -- 30. The Social Content of the Algerian Struggle -- 31. The State and Politics in the France of 1960 -- 32. Gaullism and Algeria -- 33. Algeria Seven Years After -- 34. Algeria Evacuated..

"Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term "postmodern" into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His "The postmodern condition" is seminal within the current debates over the relationship of theory and epistemology to history and political practice. Available for the first time in translation this collection of Lyotard's political writings gives new insight into the political motivation implicit in hte arguments of this classic work."--Back cover.

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