Summary
Overview
Key Readings
The association between Lyotard and postmodernism is so strong that it threatens to eclipse his seminal contributions to aesthetics, politics, education, religion and phenomenology.
The Postmodern Condition was widely acclaimed as the bible of postmodernism and Lyotard was unwillingly elevated by his readers to a position of almost papal authority. Yet the twenty seven books published in his lifetime, to say nothing of the lectures, articles and other interventions, reveal a complex, multi-dimensional thinker who cannot be confined by the label ‘postmodernist’.
Profoundly influenced by the inhumanity of the second world war, Lyotard began his career in Algeria where he fell under the influence of this historian, Pierre Sourys who introduced him to the Socialisme ou Barbarie group which included Cornelius Catroiadis, Claude Lefort and Jean Laplanche. ...
Editor's Introduction: From Postwar to Postmodern – Lyotard's “Interregnum” and After
Introduction
In his Introduction to Habermas and Modernity (1985) – a collection of essays which includes Richard Rorty's “Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity” – Richard Bernstein argued that resisting postmodernism and defending rationality were the crucial challenges of the time:
For we live in an era when there is a suspicion of reason, and of the very idea of universal validity claims that can be justified through argument. There is a rage against humanism and the Enlightenment legacy. We hear of “postmodernity,” “postindustrialism,” “post-structuralism,” etc., but no one seems to be able to fill in the content of these “posts.” From all sides, we hear of ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I
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Contextual and Comparative Explication
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Biography and Context
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1. Born in 1925
Jean-François Lyotard
1993
Political Writings
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Edouard Morot-Sir
1981
Contemporary French Civilization
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3. Language, Literature, Deconstruction and Politics
Keith Reader
1987
Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968
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Julian Pefanis
1992
The Judgment of Park: Recent French Theory in a Local Context
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5. Écriture judaïque: Where are the Jews in Western Discourse?
Susan Shapiro
1994
Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, Theories of Contemporary Culture
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‘Taking Stock’
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Robert Hurley
1974
Telos
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7. In the Wake of Structuralism: French Philosophy's New Wave
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
1976
Guardian Weekly
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Vincent Descombes
1980
Modern French Philosophy
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9. Desire in Art and Politics: The Theories of Jean-François Lyotard
Maureen Turim
1984
Camera Obscura
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10. Introduction to Introducing Lyotard
Bill Readings
1991
Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics. Critics of the Twentieth Century
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11. Corporality, Ethics, Experimentation: Lyotard in the Eighties
Cecile Lindsay
1992
Philosophy Today
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Dialogues/Debates/Interviews
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12. Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalismi: The Lyotard–Habermas Debate over Social Theory
Mark Poster
1992
Modern Fiction Studies
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13. Le Cosmopolitisme sans émancipation: En réponse à Jean-François Lyotard
Richard Rorty
1985
Critique
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14. Habermas and Lyotard on Post-Modernity
Richard Rorty
1984
Praxis International
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15. Foreword to the Postmodern Condition
Fredric Jameson
1984
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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16. Epistemologies of Postmodernism: A Rejoinder to Jean-François Lyotard
Seyla Benhabib
1984
New German Critique
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17. Interview with Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard | Georges Van Den Abbeele
1984
Diacritics
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Comparisons
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18. Power and Subjectivity in Foucault
Peter Dews
1984
New Left Review
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19. Jürgen Habermas and Jean-François Lyotard: Post-Modernism and the Crisis of Rationality
Stephen Watson
1984
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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Charles Altieri
1989
Redrawing the Lines: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary Theory
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21. Divergences: Modernism, Postmodernism, Jameson and Lyotard
Peter Nicholls
1991
Critical Quarterly
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22. Democracy and Difference: Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida
Seyla Benhabib
1994
The Journal of Political Philosophy
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Volume II
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Substantive Implications
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The Phenomenon of ‘Postmodernism’
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23. From Counter-Culture to Neo-Conservatism and Beyond: Stages of the Postmodern
Andreas Huyssen
1984
Social Science Information
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24. Postmodernism or Post-Colonialism Today
Simon During
1987
Textual Practice
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25. Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism
Linda Hutcheon
1987
Textual Practice
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26. Postmodern Italy: Notes on the “Crisis of Reason”, “Weak Thought,” and The Name of the Rose
Stefano Rosso
1987
Exploring Postmodernism
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27. On the Critical ‘Post': Lyotard's Agitated Judgement
Richard Beardsworth
1992
JudgingLyotard
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28. Retrieving Truth: Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Problem of Truth
Jeff Malpas
1992
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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Peter Wagner
1992
Theory and Society
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Politics
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30. Kant the Liberal, Kant the Anarchist: Rawls and Lyotard on Kantian Justice
Todd May
1990
Southern Journal of Philosophy
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31. The Post-Modern Challenge to Community
Koula Mellos
1994
History of European Ideas
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32. The Other of Justice: Habermas and the Ethical Challenge of Postmodernism
Axel Honneth
1995
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
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33. The Politics of Nonidentity: Adorno, Postmodernism – and Edward Said
Fred Dallmayr
1997
Political Theory
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Aesthetics
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John Rajchman
1985
Art in America
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35. Narrative and Postmodernity in France
A. Varga
1988
Postmodern Fiction in Europe and the Americas: Postmodern Studies
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Rosalind Krauss
1989
Cahiers du Musee National dArt Moderne
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37. Breaking Rules, Making History: A Postmodern Reading of Historiography in Juan Goytisolo's Fiction
Abigail Six
1990
History andPost-War Writing
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38. The Post-Modern Imagination: Lyotard
Richard Kearney
1991
Poetics of Imagining: From Husserl to Lyotard
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39. Writing without Representation, and Unreadable Notation
Jean-Charles François
1992
Perspectives of New Music
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40. Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality
William Gamson | David Croteau | William Hoynes | Theodore Sasson
1992
Annual Review of Sociology
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41. Digital Songs: Aspects of Contemporary Work and Life
Jannis Kallinikos
1992
Systems Practice
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42. Film and the New Psychology
Paisley Livingston
1992
Poetics
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43. A Discourse (with Shape of Reason Missing)
John Tagg
1992
Art History
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Jon Wagner
1992
(Quarterly Review of Film and Video
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45. Immemorial Visibilities: Seeing the City's Difference
L. Barth
1996
Environment and Planning
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Volume III
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SUbstantive Implications
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Philosophy
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46. Lyotard's “Kantian Socialism”
Kevin Geiman
1990
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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47. Lyotard's Neo-Sophistic Philosophy of Phrases
Eric White
1994
Poetics Today
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Philosophy of Science
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48. Being there with Thomas Kuhn: A Parable for Postmodern Times
Steve Fuller
1992
History and Theory
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Education
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49. Techno-Science, Rationality, and the University: Lyotard on the “Postmodern Condition”
Michael Peters
1989
Educational Theory
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50. Postmodernism and Higher Education
Harland Bloland
1995
The Journal of Higher Education
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Religion
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51. Christ in the Postmodern Age: Reflections Inspired by Jean-François Lyotard
William Beardslee
1989
Varieties of Postmodern Theology
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52. Liberation Theology as Critical Theory: The Notion of the ‘Privileged Perspective'
Joy Gordon
1996
Philosophy and Social Criticism
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Gender and Sexuality
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53. Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism
Nancy Fraser
1988
Theory, Culture and Society
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54. Lesbians and Lyotard: Legitimation and the Politics of the Name
Judith Roof
1994
The Lesbian Postmodern. Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
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Race
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Vijay Mishra
1996
Vijay Mishra Meanjin
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56. The “Jew” as “Postmodern”: A Personal Report
Raphael Sassower
1996
People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography
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Psychology and the Body
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57. Rephrasing the Freudian Unconscious: Lyotard's Affect-Phrase
Anne Tomiche
1994
Diacritics
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58. The Application of Postmodern Thought to the Clinical Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Richard Chessick
1996
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
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Sociology
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59. Jean-François Lyotard: Narrating Postmodernity
Mark Erickson
1990
Working Papers in Sociology
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60. Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences
Martin Kreiswirth
1992
New Literary History
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History
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61. Telling it like it was: Historical Narratives on their Own Terms
Andrew Norman
1991
History and Theory
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Organizational Analysis
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62. Postmodern Organizational Analysis: Toward a Conceptual Framework
John Hassard
1994
Journal of Management Studies
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