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Lyotard and Politics : A Critical Introduction / Stuart Sim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking Politics : THPOPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474456517
  • 9781474456531
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
LOC classification:
  • B2430.L964
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Thinking Politics with Lyotard -- 1 ‘Philosophical Politics’ in the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Relativism and the Problem of Value Judgement -- 3 Lyotard and the Post-Marxist Turn -- 4 The Politics of the Differend -- 5 The Politics of Heidegger -- 6 Thinking the Politics of the Future -- 7 Aesthetics and Politics -- Conclusion: Towards a Politics of the Event -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Establishes Lyotard as the most politically committed of contemporary sceptical thinkersAnalyses Lyotard’s key concepts in terms of their political implicationsApplies the 'little narrative' notion to current ideological strugglesAnalyses the role played by relativism in contemporary political thought, particularly Lyotard's sustained attempts to reconcile relativism with value judgementIt is Jean François Lyotard’s political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics': finding ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Thinking Politics with Lyotard -- 1 ‘Philosophical Politics’ in the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Relativism and the Problem of Value Judgement -- 3 Lyotard and the Post-Marxist Turn -- 4 The Politics of the Differend -- 5 The Politics of Heidegger -- 6 Thinking the Politics of the Future -- 7 Aesthetics and Politics -- Conclusion: Towards a Politics of the Event -- Bibliography -- Index

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Establishes Lyotard as the most politically committed of contemporary sceptical thinkersAnalyses Lyotard’s key concepts in terms of their political implicationsApplies the 'little narrative' notion to current ideological strugglesAnalyses the role played by relativism in contemporary political thought, particularly Lyotard's sustained attempts to reconcile relativism with value judgementIt is Jean François Lyotard’s political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics': finding ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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