A book bearing witness to an event: the meeting between Jean-Francois Lyotard, the thinker of incompatibilities and non Conciliation and young philosophers, rather mordant. To read quietly, listening to fragments of Schoenberg, Berio and Cage in the interludes. A book I am very happy have published é ...
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Lyotard in Nanterre , edited by Claire Pagès, Paris, philosophical * Continents, Kli ncksieck, 2010.
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Beginning June 200 8 PhD students of Philosophy at the University of Paris X (Paris University West -Nanterre La Défense) devote their joint seminar with Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) which was a time, around 19 68, a prominent figure in their department .
opportunity for these young researchers to question the thought of this philosopher of the most singular that they have not known personally to return to cold on the event that it has ceased to be discontinuity in its sometimes confusing; it justice (which does not mean approving) beyond the postmodern who truly put and ignore both.
Seventeen texts on various aspects of the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, prefaced by Jean-Michel Salanskis are collected here: (I) the ratio of Husserl to Lyotard, Levinas and Wittgenstein (II) aesthetics, (III) the relationship between aesthetics and politics, (IV) elaborations of the concepts of face and language (v) political philosophy (vi) the concept of childhood.
The book closes with an article by Jean-Francois Lyotard, "Test device speculative analysis", introduced by Corinne Enaudeau.
* Extracts from the preface by Jean-Michel Salanskis:
The philosopher of dispossession
Jean-Francois Lyotard is both its proper place in the constellation of "subversive philosophers" of the years 1960-1970, which displays the most specific traits, perhaps even in the majors, and a rebel such insertion. Is that in him, his personality appears in this intellectual ad'impossible it: one is tempted to say he did the same thing as the others, but by experimenting and by showing that it does not work. Without it being allowed in his case, so reassuring to conclude that if it does not work, it's still a way of walking.
Born in 1924 - almost at the same time as Deleuze and Foucault, then, and six years before Derrida - he came to prominence in the aftermath of May 1968, he was more than an actor in University of Nanterre, where he was teaching: an authority, a political inspiration. He shared, in particular, activist and intellectual experience, while news of the March 22 Movement. The writings of a breakthrough are, first, noticed a few articles published in various journals, secondly and more importantly, the book libidinal economy that has propelled to the front of the stage: such a work expressed, no doubt, a concept unheard of social and political radicalism. The notoriety gained from this book was placed on a stable base of Lyotard in celebrity, even if those who know and love his thought complain that his image has been for many years unfortunately fixed by this success even [...]
[...] we must now [...] say something exceptional, unusual perhaps [his route] . The non-standard philosophical life of Jean-Francois Lyotard is that there really changed his mind several times, far more than is usual for a philosopher: I think I can discern five periods of his thought, each corresponding starts at a discount genuine and profound issues, theses, references. However, this mutability is not ordinary. Often, the authors devoted specifically required by history due to a sort of intellectual core that they have beaten all their life, and which shines in the vast majority of their writings [...]
This is not an insult to Derrida or Deleuze, I think, to note that the thought of self away self-refuting-shifting (the differance ) plays this role at first, or that the arrangement meets such a divergent function in the second [...] It will be hard pressed to articulate something Lyotard similar in both the motives of the species found at home are being challenged from within by other moments of the work (Should we name the figural, the libidinal band, the "Come-on?"-Affect the sentence?). Lyotard does not let itself be analyzed, either, first and später Lyotard, as is readily done in contemporary philosophy: the später is usually the one who deconstructs what remained simplistic rationalist in the früher [...]
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* Continents has published philosophical Levinas in Jerusalem , edited by Joëlle Hansel (2007), Heidegger and , evil and science Salanskis Jean-Michel (2009).
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A note: a big issue in Derrida number 498 (June 2010) of Magazine Literary , where you can read an important extract from Derrida Jean-Michel Salanskis, recently published by Oxford University Press, in the collection Figures Knowledge (see, right here, Spring Promotion 2010 (1) , posted April 26, 2010).
http://www.aps-presse.fr/download/BELLES_LETTRES/belleslettres2805b.pdf
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