Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It also situates Lyotard's discussion of the postmodern within the context of his other key concepts: the figural, the libidinal and the sublime. Accessible in style and approach, Lyotard Reframed employs numerous examples drawn from the arts to critically examine and evaluate the nature, history and significance of these important concepts and explore their respective links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction.

Written for students, teachers and those interested in the arts more generally, 'Lyotard Reframed' employs numerous examples drawn from painting, cinema, and comic books, to illustrate the significance of these ideas and to explore their links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction.

About the Author
Graham Jones is Lecturer in Media, Communications and Writing at Federation University. His research focuses on the work of two poststructuralist philosophers Deleuze and Lyotard. He is co-editor, with Jon Roffe, of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (2009).


Book Information
ISBN 9781845116804
Author Graham Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 185g