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JEAN-FRANCOIS1 LYOTARD Simon Malpas Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD `An excellent introduction to Lyotard's contribution to contemporary thought. It is lucid, to the point and persuasive.' Hans Bertens, University of Utrecht `This is a clear and concise introduction to all the major aspects of Lyotard's thought, which demonstrates just why this figure has had such a profound impact on contemporary life.' Stuart Sim, University of Sunderland In works such as The Postmodern Condition, The Differend, Libidinal Economy and The Inhuman, Jean-Francois Lyotard has radically transformed the ways in which we think about contemporary culture. His studies of the relations between knowledge, art, politics and history constitute some of the most influential texts in what has come to be known as postmodernist thought. This guide offers an introduction to the key ideas which run through Lyotard's work, from modernity and the postmodern to ethics, the sublime and the `unpresentable'. Simon Malpas places the key texts in their intellectual contexts and goes on to trace their considerable impact upon contemporary thought. In this way, he not only makes Lyotard's texts approachable, but also prepares readers to make their own crit- ical judgements of the works. The book concludes with an annotated guide to further reading, with helpful suggestions for further study. Lyotard's work is impossible to ignore for anybody who is serious about contemporary literature and culture, and this guide provides the ideal companion to the wide variety of his critical texts. Simon Malpas is Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is editor of Postmodern Debates and co-editor of The New Aestheticism.
ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS essential guides for literary studies Series Editor: Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London Routledge Critical Thinkers is a series of accessible introductions to key figures in contemporary critical thought. With a unique focus on historical and intellectual contexts, each volume examines a key theorist's: • significance • motivation • key ideas and their sources • impact on other thinkers Concluding with extensively annotated guides to further reading, Routledge Critical Thinkers are the literature student's passport to today's most exciting critical thought. Already available: Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane Maurice Blanchot by Ullrich Haase and William Large Judith Butler by Sara Salih Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook Sigmund Freud by Pamela Thurschwell Martin Heidegger by Timothy Clark Fredric Jameson by Adam Roberts Paul de Man by Martin McQuillan Edward Said by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Stephen Morton For further details on this series, see www.literature.routledge.com/rct