Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.

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Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.

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Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

by Bill Readings
Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics

by Bill Readings

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The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134936700
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/19/2006
Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Bill Readings is Professeur Agrégé in the Département de littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal.

Table of Contents

Part I Mobile supplement I: after the event; Chapter 1 Figure; Chapter 2 Postmodernity and narrative; Chapter 3 Politics and ethics; Part II Mobile supplement II: work Notes Bibliography INDEX;
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