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Jean-François Lyotard is recognized as one of the most significant French philosophers of the twentieth century. Although nearly all of his major writing has been translated into English, one important work has until now been unavailable. __Discourse, Figure__ is Lyotard’s thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan’s influential seminars in Paris, __Discourse, Figure__ distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be beyond reason’s grasp.A wide-ranging and highly unusual work, __Discourse, Figure__ proceeds from an attentive consideration of the phenomenology of experience to an ambitious meditation on the psychoanalytic account of the subject of experience, structured by the confrontation between phenomenology and psychoanalysis as contending frames within which to think the materialism of consciousness. In addition to prefiguring many of Lyotard’s later concerns, __Discourse, Figure__ captures Lyota
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- Author
- Jean-Francois Lyotard & Antony Hudek & Mary Lydon & John Mowitt
- Publisher
- University Of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816673308
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Art, History
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (23 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14