Lyotard and Politics

A Critical Introduction

Stuart Sim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5651-7 (ISBN)

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It is Jean François Lyotard’s political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics': finding ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard’s brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.

Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market (2012), Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science & Cultural Understanding (2014).

1. Introduction: Thinking Politics with Lyotard Lyotard's StyleNotes

2. 'Philosophical Politics' in the 21st CenturyPhilosophers and IntellectualsLyotard's PostmodernismPeregrinations: Thinking Politics FluidlyLeft PopulismPosthegemony and PopulismLittle Narratives and Liberal DemocracyPhilosophers Against the SystemNotes

3. Relativism and the Problem of Value JudgementJust RelativisingJudging FascismJudging LyotardPragmatic RelativismConclusionNotes

4. Lyotard and the Post-Marxist TurnThe Rise of Post-MarxismAlgeria: The Limits of Marxist ThoughtLibidinal Economy: Marx and DesireThe Answer to Grand Narrative: The Postmodern ConditionThe Viability of Post-MarxismConclusion Notes

5. The Politics of the DifferendThe Archipelago and DifferendsGender and the DifferendThe Nation State and the DifferendInternal DifferendsConclusionNotes

6. The Politics of HeideggerFarías on Heidegger Derrida on HeideggerLyotard and the Sin of ForgettingLyotard as Anti-PopulistScapegoating and 'the Jews'Heidegger Post-LyotardNotes

7. Thinking the Politics of the FutureOf Cyborgs and Cybernetic Systems'Can Thought Go On Without a Body?'Corporate Power and Robot LabourThe End is NighNotes

8. Aesthetics and PoliticsDuchamp and Aesthetic IndeterminacyModernisms and PostmodernismsNewman: No AllusionsMonory: No StoryLyotard on LiteratureLyotard on FilmLyotard on TelevisionLyotard on MusicConclusionNotes

9. Conclusion: Towards a Politics of the EventLiving with EventsSvelte PoliticsPagan PoliticsReassessing the EventLyotard as a Work of ArtDissension and Invention'How to Judge Jean-François Lyotard?'Notes

Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Thinking Politics
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5651-0 / 1474456510
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5651-7 / 9781474456517
Zustand	Neuware