Lyotard And The Inhuman Condition

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720083
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inhuman written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyotard and the Inhuman written by Stuart Sim and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jean-Francois Lyotard, the cyborg is a symbol of fear, Mankind already inhabits a world which views machine implantation in humans as normal and necessary. It implies a future, Lyotard warns, which may dangerously negate the value of humanity itself.

Author : Rudi Visker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140202827X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inhuman Condition written by Rudi Visker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference? To clarify the meaning of the difference at stake here, we have tried to rephrase it in terms of the two major and mutually competing paradigms provided by the history of phenomenology only to find both of them equally unable to accommodate this difference without violence. Neither the ethical nor the ontological approach can account for a subject that insists on playing a part of its own rather than following the script provided for it by either Being or the Good. What appears to be, from a Heideggerian or Levinasian perspective, an unwillingness to open up to what offers to deliver us from the condition of subjectivity is analysed in these pages as a structure in its own right. Far from being the wilful, indifferent and irresponsive being its critics have portrayed it to be, the so-called 'postmodern' subject is essentially finite, not even able to assume the transcendence to which it owes its singularity. This inability is not a lack - it points instead to a certain unthought shared by both Heidegger and Levinas which sets the terms for a discussion no longer our own. Instead of blaming Heidegger for underdeveloping 'being-with', we should rather stress that his account of mineness may be, in the light of contemporary philosophy, what stands most in need of revision. And, instead of hailing Levinas as the critic whose stress on the alterity of the Other corrects Heidegger's existential solipsism, the problems into which Levinas runs in defining that alterity call for a different diagnosis and a corresponding change in the course that phenomenology has taken since. Instead of preoccupying itself with the invisible, we should focus on the structures of visibility that protect us from its terror. The result? An account of difference that is neither ontological nor ethical, but 'mè-ontological', and that can help us understand some of the problems our societies have come to face (racism, sexism, multiculturalism, pluralism). And, in the wake of this, an unexpected defence of what is at stake in postmodernism and in the question it has refused to take lightly: who are we? Finally, an homage to Arendt and Lyotard who, if read through each other's lenses, give an exact articulation to the question with which our age struggles: how to think the 'human condition' once one realizes that there is an 'inhuman' side to it which, instead of being its mere negation, turns out to be that without which it would come to lose its humanity?

Author : Ashley Woodward
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074869725X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition written by Ashley Woodward and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

Author : Ashley Woodward
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147440491X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition written by Ashley Woodward and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816616114
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Différend written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477002
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libidinal Economy written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804737937
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confession of Augustine written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training, rearticulating Augustine's sensory universe from a vantage point imaginarily inside the confessant's world, a vantage point that reveals the intense point of conjuncture between the sensual and the spiritual, the erotic world and the mystical, being and appearance, sin and salvation. Lyotard reveals the very origins of phenomenology in Augustine's narrative, and in so doing also shows the origins of semiotics to lie there (in the explication of the Augustinian heavens as skin, as veil, as vellum).

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722421
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a close reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment" looking specifically at the complex paragraphs 23-29: "The Analytic of the Sublime."