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Postmodern Fables

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Postmodern Fables

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780816625550

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date:

1st April 1999

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Cultural studies

Dewey:

194

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 18mm

Description

This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics, paying particular attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics, and judgment.

Acerbic, critical, relentlessly ironic, continually burning bridges and burning rubber, always at high risk and in high gear, Postmodern Fables throws down the gauntlet to any and all who idealize comfort. In sections titled "Verbiages, " "System Fantasies, " "Concealments, " and "Crypts, " Lyotard unravels and reconfigures idealist notions of subjects as various and fascinating as the French Revolution, the Holocaust, the reception of French thought in the Anglo-American world, the events of May 1968, the Gulf War, academic travelers as intellectual tourists, the collapse of communism, and his own work in the context o others'.

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