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'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as
Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological.
Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume - with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford - contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword,
Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University, USA)Infans,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Mary LydonReturn: Joyce,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts.Prescription: Kafka,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans Christopher Fynsk
Survivor: Arendt,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. RobertsWords: Sartre,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Jeffrey MehlmanDisorder: Valéry,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert HarveyVoices: Freud,
J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Georges Van Den AbbeeleAfterword,
Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK)Notes
Bibliography of Works by J-Fr. Lyotard in English Translation
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Zusammenfassung
‘Nobody knows how to write’. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological.
Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume – with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford – contextualises Lyotard’s thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.
Zusatztext
In these readings Lyotard illustrates how his innovative theory of infancy can illuminate Kafka, Joyce, Freud, Arendt, Sartre and Valéry. They showcase Lyotard’s importance as a reader of art and literature. The six interventions are not only enlightening, but are crafted in Lyotard’s exquisite idiom.
