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The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard's relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard's work so as to draw out the implications of poststructurlaism's attention to difference in reading. Lyotard's willingness to question the political and examine the relationship between art and politics is shown to undermine the charge that deconstruction abdicates political and social articulation.The surge of interest in Jean-François Lyotard’s writings has pushed him into the centre of debate on the postmodern. His willingness to question the political and to investigate the intersection of art and politics undermines the charge that deconstruction has abdicated its political responsibility. This introduction, by discussing the entire range of Lyotard’s writing, situates his interest in the postmodern in terms of a larger project of rethinking the politics of representation.Bill Readings traces Lyotard’s attacks on st

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Author

Bill Readings, 1960-

Publisher

Taylor & Francis, Inc.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610463718

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy

Rating

3.64 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14