The Lyotard Dictionary - - Paperback Bog - Edinburgh University Press - 2011 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-François Lyotard. Drawing on a multidisciplinary team of experts, the 168 entries in The Lyotard Dictionary explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating him to his contemporaries.* 118 entries cover all of Lyotard''s concepts and concerns, from ''Addressee'' and ''Aesthetics'', through ''I don''t know what'' and ''Is it happening?'' to ''Unpresentable'' and ''Writing''* A further 50 ''linking'' entries contextualise Lyotard within the wider intellectual currents of his time, from concepts such as Nazism and Memory to thinkers from Aristotle to Jean BaudrillardJean-François Lyotard''s postmodern thought is massively influential across a host of academic disciplines, from philosophy and the social sciences through to literary, media, and cultural studies.