Lyotard and politics : a critical introduction /
Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism.
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2020]
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| Edice: | Thinking politics (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1c29rdf |
Obsah:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Thinking Politics with Lyotard
- Lyotard's Style
- 1 'Philosophical Politics' in the Twenty-first Century
- Philosophers and Intellectuals
- Lyotard's Postmodernism
- Peregrinations: Thinking Politics Fluidly
- Left Populism
- Posthegemony and Populism
- Little Narratives and Liberal Democracy
- Philosophers Against the System
- 2 Relativism and the Problem of Value Judgement
- Just Relativising
- Judging Fascism
- Judging Lyotard
- Pragmatic Relativism
- Conclusion
- 3 Lyotard and the Post-Marxist Turn
- The Rise of Post-Marxism
- Algeria: The Limits of Marxist Thought
- Libidinal Economy: Marx and Desire
- The Answer to Grand Narrative: The Postmodern Condition
- The Viability of Post-Marxism
- Conclusion
- 4 The Politics of the Differend
- The Archipelago and Differends
- Gender and the Differend
- The Nation State and the Differend
- Internal Differends
- Conclusion
- 5 The Politics of Heidegger
- Farías on Heidegger
- Derrida on Heidegger
- Lyotard and the Sin of Forgetting
- Lyotard as Anti-Populist
- Scapegoating and 'the jews'
- Heidegger Post-Lyotard
- 6 Thinking the Politics of the Future
- Of Cyborgs and Cybernetic Systems
- 'Can Thought Go On Without a Body?'
- Corporate Power and Robot Labour
- The End is Nigh
- 7 Aesthetics and Politics
- Duchamp and Aesthetic Indeterminacy
- Modernisms and Postmodernisms
- Newman: No Allusions
- Monory: No Story
- Lyotard on Literature
- Lyotard on Film
- Lyotard on Television
- Lyotard on Music
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Towar ds a Politics of the Event
- Living with Events
- Svelte Politics
- Pagan Politics
- Reassessing the Event
- Lyotard as a Work of Art
- Dissension and Invention
- 'How to Judge Jean-François Lyotard?'
- Bibliography
- Index