Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives

Informationen zum Autor Gary Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University. Klappentext This study considers Lyotard's notion of a "grand" narrative and analyzes his critique of modernity. In the light of Lyotard's views, it goes on to examine the work of seven political thinkers whose ideas represent different stands of a distinctively modern perspective. Zusammenfassung This study considers Lyotard's notion of a "grand" narrative and analyzes his critique of modernity. In the light of Lyotard's views! it goes on to examine the work of seven political thinkers whose ideas represent different stands of a distinctively modern perspective.

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• Authors: Gary Browning, Gary K. Browning, Browning Gary
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2000
• EAN: 9780708314791
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1479-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Political Philosophy Now S.; Political Philosophy Now S.; Political Philosophy Now
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Grand, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Lyotard, of, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, narratives, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, END