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Lyotard Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Graham Jones
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Description for Lyotard Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Paperback. Written for students, teachers and those interested in the arts more generally, 'Lyotard Reframed' employs numerous examples drawn from painting, cinema, and comic books, to illustrate the significance of these ideas and to explore their links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction. Series: Contemporary Thinkers Reframed. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It also situates Lyotard's discussion of the postmodern within the context of his other key concepts: the figural, the libidinal and the sublime. Accessible in style and approach, Lyotard Reframed employs numerous examples drawn from the arts to critically examine and evaluate the nature, history and significance ... Read more
Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It also situates Lyotard's discussion of the postmodern within the context of his other key concepts: the figural, the libidinal and the sublime. Accessible in style and approach, Lyotard Reframed employs numerous examples drawn from the arts to critically examine and evaluate the nature, history and significance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Contemporary Thinkers Reframed
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845116804
SKU
V9781845116804
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About Graham Jones
Graham Jones is Lecturer in Media, Communications and Writing at Federation University. His research focuses on the work of two poststructuralist philosophers Deleuze and Lyotard. He is co-editor, with Jon Roffe, of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (2009).
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