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020 $a1780238088$qpaperback
020 $a9781780238081$qpaperback
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn966253014
035 $a(OCoLC)966253014
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050 4 $aB2430.L964$bB36 2017
082 04 $a194$223
100 1 $aBamford, Kiff,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJean-Fraṅois Lyotard /$cKiff Bamford.
264 1 $aLondon :$bReaktion Books,$c2017.
300 $a176 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c20 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCritical lives
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aJean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book 'The Postmodern Condition', the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard's work has often been obscured by its sometimes problematic association with the postmodern. His life refuses to follow the clear trajectory common to academics in France: it stalls and hesitates, with Lyotard's first 'career' consisting of fifteen years of militant Marxist political engagement. Kiff Bamford traces this circuitous journey, unravelling the thrust of Lyotard's main philosophical arguments, his struggle with thinking and his confrontation with the task of writing and thinking philosophy in a different way. These all take place within a series of very particular contexts: the Algerian war, the experimental university at Vincennes and a sustained engagement with the visual arts.
600 10 $aLyotard, Jean-François,$d1924-1998.
830 0 $aCritical lives (London, England)
852 00 $bglx$hB2430.L964$iB36 2017