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The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge / Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard;

The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge / Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard; translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi; foreword by Fredric Jameson Softcover - 1991

by Lyotard, Jean-Fran�ois (1924-1998)

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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. 8th Impression. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxv, 110 pages. Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of. Civilization, Modern 20th century. Postmodernism.
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  • Title The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge / Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard; translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi; foreword by Fredric Jameson
  • Author Lyotard, Jean-Fran�ois (1924-1998)
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition 8th Impression
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
  • Date 1991
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 354018
  • ISBN 9780816611737 / 0816611734
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.02 x 0.38 in (23.16 x 15.29 x 0.97 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Postmodernism, Knowledge, Theory of
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83014717
  • Dewey Decimal Code 001

From the rear cover

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.

About the author

Jean-Francois Lyotard is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vinecennes. He is best known for his studies of aesthetics and of the psycho-political dimensions of discourses. Among his books are Discours, figure and Economie Libidinale.

Fredric Jameson is professor of French Literature and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Translators Geoff Bennington and Brain Massuni are, respectively, lecturer in French at the University of Sussex and candidate for a Ph.D. in French at Yale University. Bennington is an editor of The Oxford Literary Review and has contributed essays and reviews to that journal and to Diacritics, Poetique, and French Studies.

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