[PDF] The Postmodern Condition eBook

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521458795

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The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

Author : David Ashley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0429979649

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This book, beginning with an analysis of how changes in the global economy are affecting the lives of ordinary Americans, suggests that the postmodern condition can be likened to the balkanization of culture and society and the "Brazilianization" of politics and the economy.

Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521861578

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A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

Author : Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816625550

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This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French theory in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context of others'.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816616114

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In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191655643

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Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for this new area of research. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804720083

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Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816622115

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A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers, including the actual children of some of Lyotard's colleagues, that inform the trajectory of his thinking in the period before The Postmodern Condition through The Differend.