Enthusiasm - The Kantian Critique of History

Zusatztext "Exploring the notions of 'passages'! the sublime! freedom! the nature of the political and the sign of history! Enthusiasm may be fascinating to undergraduates newly-introduced to Lyotard's work and intriguing to those seeking to contextualize what they have already grasped." Informationen zum Autor Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist best known for his theories of postmodernity ( The Postmodern Condition , 1979) and for his wide-ranging work on questions of justice, judgment, politics and aesthetics. Among his most influential books are Phenomenology (1953); Discourse/Figure (1972); Libidinal Economics (1974); Just Gaming (1979); The Differend (1983); The Inhuman (1998); Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1991); and Postmodern Fables (1993). Klappentext Jean-Fran¿s Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist best known for his theories of postmodernity (The Postmodern Condition, 1979) and for his wide-ranging work on questions of justice, judgment, politics and aesthetics. Among his most influential books are Phenomenology (1953); Discourse/Figure (1972); Libidinal Economics (1974); Just Gaming (1979); The Differend (1983); The Inhuman (1998); Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1991); and Postmodern Fables (1993). Zusammenfassung Enthusiasm is Lyotard's most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime.

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• Authors: Lyotard Jean-Francois, Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Assisted by: Georges van den Abbeele (Editor), Georges Van Den Abbeele (Editor), Georges Van Den Abbeele (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2009
• EAN: 9780804738996
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3899-6
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works