The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: 10 (Theory and History of Literature) - Softcover

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

 
9780816611737: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: 10 (Theory and History of Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816611734 ISBN 13: 9780816611737
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1984

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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean-Francois Lyotard is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vinecennes. He is best known for his studies of aesthetics and of the psycho-political dimensions of discourses. Among his books are Discours, figure and Economie Libidinale.

Fredric Jameson is professor of French Literature and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Translators Geoff Bennington and Brain Massuni are, respectively, lecturer in French at the University of Sussex and candidate for a Ph.D. in French at Yale University. Bennington is an editor of The Oxford Literary Review and has contributed essays and reviews to that journal and to Diacritics, Poetique, and French Studies.

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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.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816611734
ISBN 13 
9780816611737
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Anzahl der Seiten
144
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