‘Nobody knows how to write’. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological.
Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume – with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford – contextualises Lyotard’s thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.
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Foreword, Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University, USA)
Infans, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Mary Lydon
Return: Joyce, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts.
Prescription: Kafka, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans Christopher Fynsk
Survivor: Arendt, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts
Words: Sartre, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman
Disorder: Valéry, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey
Voices: Freud, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele
Afterword, Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Notes
Bibliography of Works by J-Fr. Lyotard in English Translation
Index
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Readings in Infancy marks a genuine turn in Lyotard’s work. After the reflection on the sublime comes the elaboration of the subliminal. Infancy is this non-conscious, prelinguistic state in which the subject is born and yet does not exist. If the sublime is the experience of the too late, the subliminal is that of the too early. In-between them, Lyotard powerfully unravels the traumatic adventure of the unpresentable.
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An important collection of late writings by one of the most provocative French philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard, published together in English for the first time.
This collection has never been published in English before
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ISBN
9781350167353
Publisert
2023-02-23
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
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216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
184
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