Judging Lyotard

ISBN-13: 9780415052573 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str.

Andrew Benjamin

Opis

Best known for his work The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the leading figures in contemporary French philosophy. This collection of articles offers an estimation and critique of his work. While the various chapters deal with different aspects of Lyotard's writings, they are all concerned with the question of judgement. The importance to Lyotard of judgement, and how it is to be judged, is a recurrent theme throughout the entire range of his work. It is particularly evident in his continuing engagement with the work of Kant. Lyotard's own essay, Sensus Communis, which opens this volume, investigates through Kant the presuppositions of judgement. Other essays variously consider how in his writings Lyotard has rendered problematic existing forms of aesthetic, ethical, legal and political judgement.

Recenzje

`Andrew Benjamin's collection is welcome as the best available introduction to Lyotard.' - Don Cupitt, Theological Book Review

Spis treści

Contributors:
Anne Barron University College; Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris; Geoffrey Bennington, University of Sussex; Paul Crowther, University of St Andrews; David Ingram, Loyola University, Chicago; John Keane, Polytechnic of Central London; Jean-Francois Lyotard, University of California; Bill Readings, Syracruse University and Emilia Steuerman, Brunel University

O autorze

Andrew Benjamin is the general editor of the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature. He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His books include Art, Mimesis and the Avant- Garde and Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, which are also published by Routledge.