The Inhuman: Reflections on TimeStanford University Press, 1991 - 216 páginas Jean-François Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmodern Condition. In this important new study he develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. In a wide-ranging discussion the author examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno, and Derrida and looks at the works of modernist and postmodernist artists such as Cézanne, Debussy, and Boulez. Lyotard addresses issues such as time and memory, the sublime and the avant-garde, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Throughout his discussion he considers the close but problematic links between modernity, progress, and humanity, and the transition to postmodernity. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy, and the arts, to bear witness to and explain this difficult transition. This important contribution to aesthetic and philosophical debates will be of great interest to students in philosophy, literary, and cultural theory and politics. |
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About the Human | 1 |
Can Thought go on without a Body? | 8 |
Rewriting Modernity | 24 |
Matter and Time | 36 |
Logos and Techne or Telegraphy | 47 |
Time Today | 58 |
The Instant | 78 |
The Sublime and the AvantGarde | 89 |
Speech Snapshot | 129 |
After the Sublime the State of Aesthetics | 135 |
Conservation and Colour | 144 |
God and the Puppet | 153 |
Obedience | 165 |
Scapeland | 182 |
Domus and the Megalopolis | 191 |
205 | |
Communication without Communication | 108 |
Representation Presentation Unpresentable | 119 |
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