TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Jean-François Lyotard
T2  - Critical lives (London, England)
A1  - Bamford, Kiff, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.3068144
AB  - Jean-François Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book 'The Postmodern Condition', the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard's work has often been obscured by its sometimes problematic association with the postmodern. His life refuses to follow the clear trajectory common to academics in France: it stalls and hesitates, with Lyotard's first 'career' consisting of fifteen years of militant Marxist political engagement. Kiff Bamford traces this circuitous journey, unravelling the thrust of Lyotard's main philosophical arguments, his struggle with thinking and his confrontation with the task of writing and thinking philosophy in a different way. These all take place within a series of very particular contexts: the Algerian war, the experimental university at Vincennes and a sustained engagement with the visual arts.
SN  - 1780238088 nidottu
SN  - 9781780238081 nidottu
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François, : 1924-1998.
KW  - Philosophy.
ER  -