Introducing Lyotard : art and politics / Bill Readings.

By:

Readings, Bill, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critics of the twentieth century (London, England)Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 184 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203002237
9780203002230
9780415021968
0415021960
9780415055369
0415055369
1134936710
9781134936717
128383765X
9781283837651
9786610463718
6610463719
1280463716
9781280463716

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Introducing Lyotard.DDC classification:

194 20

LOC classification:

B2430.L964 R42 1990eb

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Contents:

Cover; INTRODUCING LYOTARD; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Glossary; Mobile supplement I: after the event; 1: Figure; 2: Postmodernity and narrative; 3: Politics and Ethics; Mobile supplement II: work; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Summary: The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation. -- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-177) and index.

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation. -- Provided by publisher.