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Title: The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985 by Jean-Francois Lyotard ISBN: 0-8166-2211-6 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Summary: Perceiving the Modern
Comment: As a hard-core modernist, I've been puzzled by this whole postmodern phenomena, which, to me, seemed impenetrable, so the title of this book caught my eye. Further, Lyotard has been called the theoretician of the postmodern, hence this book seemed like a good place to start trying to understand the postmodern. The book contains an afterward by Wlad Godzich that I found to be extremely helpful (read it first). I cannot claim to understand the postmodern, even after reading this book, but I have some insight into how it can make us more aware of the modern, which is characterized by a belief in universals and the project of improvement and emancipation of all humanity from bondage. Legitimacy for the actions toward that end was believed to stem from the Idea of this ultimate condition. However, 20th Century history has cast doubt on both the theoretical underpinnings (legitimacy) and practice of progress (how could the modern project have led to Auschwitz?). It is this doubt that created a postmodern awareness. 'Post' not in the sense of following, but in the sense of complexity subsuming and overwhelming the naive (unexamined) nature of this long standing project of progress.
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Title: Postmodern Fables by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Georges Van Den Abbeele ISBN: 0816625557 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard ISBN: 0816611734 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime: Kant's Critique of Judgment, Sections 23-29 (Meridian) by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean-Francois, Lyotard Lyotard ISBN: 0804722420 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Colin Smith ISBN: 0415278414 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas, M. Jolas ISBN: 0807064734 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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