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Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics Paperback / softback - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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- Title Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics
- Author Jean-Francois Lyotard
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 217 x 142 x 14mm 128 pages
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-04
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780804737500
- ISBN 9780804737500
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Cultural Region: French
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From the jacket flap
In this, one of the last published books planned by one of the major cultural philosophers of our time, Lyotard addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result, more than a sequel to Lyotard's acclaimed biography Signe Malraux, tells us as much about Lyotard and his critical concerns as it does about Malraux. It gives us Lyotard's final thoughts on his long study of the critical, disruptive possibilities of art and of the relation between aesthetics and politics. At first glance, Lyotard's sympathetic and generous analysis of Malraux might be surprising to some, for Malraux's metaphysics of art seems far removed from, if not diametrically opposed to, Lyotard's postmodern, experimental approach. But this is perhaps the book's greatest achievement, for Lyotard succeeds both in giving a compelling critical reading of Malraux (and through him of an entire era of art criticism) and in presenting, complicating, and developing his own position on art and aesthetics.
In order to present Lyotard's exquisitely compact style in the best possible way, the original French text appears on facing pages with the English translation.
In order to present Lyotard's exquisitely compact style in the best possible way, the original French text appears on facing pages with the English translation.
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 222