Jean-Francois Lyotard Bamford Kiff
Jean-Francois Lyotard Bamford Kiff Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard was one of the most important and complex French thinkers of…
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Jean-Francois Lyotard Bamford Kiff
Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard was one of the most important and complex French thinkers of the twentieth century. He unravels the thrust of Lyotard's main philosophical arguments, his struggle with thinking, and his confrontation with the task of writing and thinking differently about philosophy. In this new critical biography, Kiff Bamford traces the multi-faceted, sometimes surprising, journey of Lyotard's life and work.Bamford's book is the first to consider Lyotard's work and ideas in the wider context of his life and times.
The philosopher's own suspicion of easy narratives and rejection of Bamford takes care to situate each of these in their particular context: the Algerian war; the experimental university at Vincennes; and within Lyotard's sustained engagement with the visual arts.