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This review is from: The Lyotard Reader (Blackwell Readers) (Paperback)
Lyotard's work has continued to haunt academia as his innumerable re-transformations continue to allude critics and acolytes. The early Lyotard (of the Socialism or Barbarism period), is marked by a noted commitment to the materialist project. His writings on the struggle for Algerian independence are detailed oriented-they indicate an empiricist project that he would later attempt to overturn. His work on Heidegger and the Jews is endlessly fascinating event philosophy, and one can easily see how it made its mark on later thinkers like Badiou. Lyotard is most clearly a thinker of the postmodern, his analysis of the dissolution of metanarratives is provocative but remains problematic. And for me, his so-called linguistic turn in the differend is a surreptitious attempt to make politics itself obsolete. However, this thinker should not be dismissed, his work continues to open up new avenues for rethinking politics in the postmodern era.
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The Lyotard Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Jean François Lyotard (Hardcover - Sept. 1990)
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