书名: Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics (Critics of the Twentieth Century)
作者: Bill Readings (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (April 25, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415055369
ISBN-13: 978-0415055369
Book Description
The surge of interest in Jean-François Lyotard’s writings has pushed him into the centre of debate on the postmodern. His willingness to question the political and to investigate the intersection of art and politics undermines the charge that deconstruction has abdicated its political responsibility. This introduction, by discussing the entire range of Lyotard’s writing, situates his interest in the postmodern in terms of a larger project of rethinking the politics of representation.
Bill Readings traces Lyotard’s attacks on structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man and draws out the implications of post-structuralism’s attention to difference in reading. The art of reading and the reading of art, as evocations of the difference of events, displace both consumer culture and Romantic nostalgia.
This book performs an introduction of Lyotard’s work to current debates in Anglophone critical theory. All with an interest in those debates will benefit from the first truly introductory text on Lyotard. In addition, students with an interest in art, philosophy, and literature will find the discussion of Lyotard’s writings on these subjects a useful point of departure for critical thought.
Review
"This book contains some of the most intelligent and well-informed writing in English on the French philosopher J. F. Lyotard." -- N. Lukacher, Choice, July/August 1991
About the Author
Bill Readings is Professeur Agrégé in the Département de littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal.
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作者: Bill Readings (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (April 25, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415055369
ISBN-13: 978-0415055369
Book Description
The surge of interest in Jean-François Lyotard’s writings has pushed him into the centre of debate on the postmodern. His willingness to question the political and to investigate the intersection of art and politics undermines the charge that deconstruction has abdicated its political responsibility. This introduction, by discussing the entire range of Lyotard’s writing, situates his interest in the postmodern in terms of a larger project of rethinking the politics of representation.
Bill Readings traces Lyotard’s attacks on structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man and draws out the implications of post-structuralism’s attention to difference in reading. The art of reading and the reading of art, as evocations of the difference of events, displace both consumer culture and Romantic nostalgia.
This book performs an introduction of Lyotard’s work to current debates in Anglophone critical theory. All with an interest in those debates will benefit from the first truly introductory text on Lyotard. In addition, students with an interest in art, philosophy, and literature will find the discussion of Lyotard’s writings on these subjects a useful point of departure for critical thought.
Review
"This book contains some of the most intelligent and well-informed writing in English on the French philosopher J. F. Lyotard." -- N. Lukacher, Choice, July/August 1991
About the Author
Bill Readings is Professeur Agrégé in the Département de littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal.
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