Author : Jean-Francois Lyotard
Release : 1999-04-01
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Fables by : Jean-Francois Lyotard
Download or read book Postmodern Fables written by Jean-Francois Lyotard. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.