Author: Stephen R. C. HicksPublisher: Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781592476428
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Explaining Postmodernism
Author: Stephen R. C. HicksPublisher: Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781592476428
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Postmodern Condition
Author: Jean-François LyotardPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816611737
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
The Postmodern Explained
Author: Jean-François LyotardPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816622115
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers, including the actual children of some of Lyotard's colleagues, that inform the trajectory of his thinking in the period before The Postmodern Condition through The Differend.
Postmodern Analysis
Author: Jürgen JostPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662036355
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
What is the title of this book intended to signify, what connotations is the adjective "Postmodern" meant to carry? A potential reader will surely pose this question. To answer it, I should describe what distinguishes the approach to analysis presented here from what has been called "Modern Analysis" by its protagonists. "Modern Analysis" as represented in the works of the Bour baki group or in the textbooks by Jean Dieudonne is characterized by its systematic and axiomatic treatment and by its drive towards a high level of abstraction. Given the tendency of many prior treatises on analysis to degen erate into a collection of rather unconnected tricks to solve special problems, this definitively represented a healthy achievement. In any case, for the de velopment of a consistent and powerful mathematical theory, it seems to be necessary to concentrate solelyon the internal problems and structures and to neglect the relations to other fields of scientific, even of mathematical study for a certain while. Almost complete isolation may be required to reach the level of intellectual elegance and perfection that only a good mathematical theory can acquire. However, once this level has been reached, it might be useful to open one's eyes again to the inspiration coming from concrete ex ternal problems.
Le Différend
Author: Jean-François LyotardPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816616114
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Author: Fredric JamesonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822310907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
The Postmodern Explained to Children
Author: Jean-François LyotardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Postmodern Fables
Author: Jean-Francois LyotardPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816625550
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.
Libidinal Economy
Author: Jean-Francois LyotardPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826477002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.
The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences
Author: Simon SusenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318236
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern turn', notably in terms of its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century.