Postmodern fables
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
64,750 words, Guess
Page Count
259 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL679452M
- ISBN-100816625549
- OCLC Control Number37180964
- OCLC Control Numberpostmodernfables0000lyot
- Library of Congress Control Number97025953
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- Goodreads2970746
- LibraryThing559482
Classifications
- DDC194
- LCCB2430.L963 .M6713 1997
Description
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 of 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'.
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