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A fine softcover copy. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 141pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Philosophy; ISBN: 0816622116. ISBN/EAN: 9780816622115. Inventory No: 019032.
- Sales Rank: #1019739 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Published on: 1992-12-18
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .50" w x 6.00" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
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From Library Journal
These edited letters, addressed to children by Lyotard from 1982 to 1985, discuss postmodernism from various points of view. The nature of postmodern art, derived from Kant's category of the sublime and embodied in the avant-garde, is an important aspect of Lyotard's ideas. The political side of postmodern thinking as a retreat from unifying thought, an escape from totalitarianism, is also explained. Lyotard uses the concept of the narrative to evaluate discourse, action, psychology, and language. Wlad Godzich's afterword is especially helpful in placing Lyotard in a philosophic tradition and showing the development of his ideas. Recommended for large philosophy collections.
- Gene Shaw, Elmwood Park Lib., N.J.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From the Back Cover
A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers, including the actual children of some of Lyotard's colleagues, that inform the trajectory of his thinking in the period before The Postmodern Condition through The Differend.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Good book
By Jun Liu
The book meets my immediate needs and is a succinct summary of a complex issue, but the ridge begins to detach from the pages.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A COLLECTION OF LETTERS PROVIDING SOME INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT
By Steven H Propp
Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard (1924-1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist, best known as a pioneer of Postmodernism. He was co-founder of the International College of Philosophy with Jacques Derrida, Fran�ois Ch�telet, and Gilles Deleuze. He also wrote The Postmodern Condition, Postmodern Fables, The Lyotard Reader, etc.
The Preface to the French edition of this book explains, "We have collected some letters by the author that take up the issue of postmodernity. Obtaining [Lyotard's] consent to their publication was not without its difficulties. We argued that it could help to clear him of certain accusasions... his main objection was the na�vet� of these texts addressed to children; that, if they were published, their deceptive, pedagogical clarity would do nothing to life the quality of a controversy that was already confused enough. And, he added, he was too far from being clear about the question himself to venture a pronouncement on a hazy intuition."
The translator explains in his Foreword, "In these pages Lyotard approaches the postmodern as a way of maintaining the possibility of thought `happening'---in philosophy, art, literature, and politics; of thought proceeding when it has lost faith in its capacity to repair the crimes of the past by guiding the present toward the end of the realization of ideas... the promise of the French title to `explain to children' ... is surely ironic and not to be taken literally. It will not have explained the postmodern. Rather, it will have shown why it is necessary to approach the philosophical questions raised by postmodernity ... with the mind of the child. For childhood is the season of the mind's possibilities..."
Lyotard states in the first essay, "What then is the postmodern? What place, if any, does it occupy in that vertiginous work of questioning the rules that govern images and narratives? It is undoubtedly part of the modern." (Pg. 12) He continues, "The postmodern would be that which in the modern invokes the unpresentable in presentation itself, that which refuses the consolation of correct forms, refuses the consensus of taste permitting a common experience of nostalgia for the impossible, and inquires into new presentations... to better produce the feeling that there is something unpresentable. The postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher; the text he writes or the work he creates is not in principle governed by preestablished rules and cannot be judged according to a determinant judgment, by the application of given categories to this text or work. Such rules and categories are what the work or text is investigating. The artist and the writer therefore work without rules and in order to establish the rules for what will have been made." (Pg. 15)
He states, "There is no reasonable excuse for the confusion of reasons. The confusion lies in the very `modern' project of a universal language, that is, a metalanguage capable of collecting together every shred of meaning established in specific languages. The doubt case on `reason' springs not from the sciences but from the critique of metalanguage, that is, from the decline of metaphysics (and therefore of metapolitics as well)." (Pg. 65)
He observes, "the `post' of postmodernism has the sense of a simple succession, a diachronic sequence of periods in which each one is clearly identifiable. The `post-' indicates something like a conversion: a new direction from the previous one. Now this idea of a linear chronology is itself perfectly `modern.'" (Pg. 76) He continues, "Technoscientific development has become a means of deepening the malaise rather than of allaying it. It is no longer possible to call development progress. It seems to proceed of its own accord, with a force, an autonomous motoricity that is independent of us... The question of postmodernity is also, or first of all, a question of expressions of thought: in art, literature, philosophy, politics." (Pg. 78-9)
One may finish reading this book and still be confused about what precisely "postmodernism" is---which, by the nature of the movement, is to be expected. But Lyotard's words are surely helpful in explaining, and in clearing up some misconceptions.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Perceiving the Modern
By George Davidson
As a hard-core modernist, I've been puzzled by this whole postmodern phenomena, which, to me, seemed impenetrable, so the title of this book caught my eye. Further, Lyotard has been called the theoretician of the postmodern, hence this book seemed like a good place to start trying to understand the postmodern. The book contains an afterward by Wlad Godzich that I found to be extremely helpful (read it first). I cannot claim to understand the postmodern, even after reading this book, but I have some insight into how it can make us more aware of the modern, which is characterized by a belief in universals and the project of improvement and emancipation of all humanity from bondage. Legitimacy for the actions toward that end was believed to stem from the Idea of this ultimate condition. However, 20th Century history has cast doubt on both the theoretical underpinnings (legitimacy) and practice of progress (how could the modern project have led to Auschwitz?). It is this doubt that created a postmodern awareness. 'Post' not in the sense of following, but in the sense of complexity subsuming and overwhelming the naive (unexamined) nature of this long standing project of progress.
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