Best known for his work The Postmodern Condition , Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the leading figures in contemporary French philosophy. This is the first collection of articles to offer an estimation and critique of his work.
While the various chapters deal with different aspects of Lyotard's writings, they are all concerned with the question of judgement. The importance to Lyotard of judgement, and how it is to be judged, is a recurrent theme throughout the entire range of his work. It is particularly evident in his continuing engagement with the work of Kant. Lyotard's own essay, Sensus Communis , which opens this volume, investigates through Kant the presuppositions of judgement. Other essays variously consider how in his writings Lyotard has rendered problematic existing forms of aesthetic, ethical, legal and political judgement. Judging Lyotard is an important collection that will re-introduce Lyotard to English-speaking audiences.
Edited by:
Andrew Benjamin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780415052566
ISBN 10: 0415052564
Series: Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 July 1992
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 Sensus Communis, Jean-François Lyotard; Chapter 2 Lyotard and the Problem of Justice, Anne Barron; Chapter 3 On the Critical ‘Post’, Richard Beardsworth; Chapter 4 The Modern Democratic Revolution, John Keane; Chapter 5 Habermas vs Lyotard, Emilia Steuerman; Chapter 6 The Postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and Lyotard, David Ingram; Chapter 7 ‘Ces Petits Différends’, Geoffrey Bennington; Chapter 8 Pagans, Perverts or Primitives?, Bill Readings; Chapter 9 Les Immatériaux and the Postmodern Sublime, Paul Crowther;
Andrew Benjamin is the general editor of the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature. He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His books include Art, Mimesis and the Avant- Garde and Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, which are also published by Routledge.
Reviews for Judging Lyotard
`Andrew Benjamin's collection is welcome as the best available introduction to Lyotard.' - Don Cupitt, Theological Book Review
