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Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History
Jean-François Lyotard
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Paperback. Enthusiasm is Lyotard's most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime. Editor(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 146.
Enthusiasm studies what Kant calls a "strong" sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard's analysis, preparatory to his work in The Differend and subsequent publications, is a radical rereading of the Kantian "faculties," traditionally understood as functions of the mind, in terms of a philosophy of phrases derived from Lyotard's prior encounters with Wittgenstein's theory of language games. The result is a kind of "fourth" critique based in Kant's later political and historical writings, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804738996
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V9780804738996
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About Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist best known for his theories of postmodernity (The Postmodern Condition, 1979) and for his wide-ranging work on questions of justice, judgment, politics and aesthetics. Among his most influential books are Phenomenology (1953); Discourse/Figure (1972); Libidinal Economics (1974); Just Gaming (1979); The Differend (1983); The Inhuman (1998); Lessons on the Analytic of ... Read more
Reviews for Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History
"Exploring the notions of 'passages', the sublime, freedom, the nature of the political and the sign of history, Enthusiasm may be fascinating to undergraduates newly-introduced to Lyotard's work and intriguing to those seeking to contextualize what they have already grasped."—Benjamin Hutchens, James Madison University, Philosophy in Review