Description: Lyotard and Critical Practice, Hardcover by Bamford, Kiff (EDT); Grebowicz, Margret (EDT), ISBN 1350192023, ISBN-13 9781350192027, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Jean-Franois Lyotard (1) was one of the previous centurys most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities?
The dominant economic discourse sees the humanities as “low-value,” an irritation at best. Lyotard helps us to think against this pervasive dismissal of creative activity, not by defending the honor of the humanities, but by inviting critical practices which aggravate this irritation. Critical practices trouble what counts as critique, embrace incertitude, and listen for silenced voices.
Twelve essays by artists and researchers take up Lyotards invitation and begin to develop the idea of critical practice in the contemporary context. Three sections titled “What resists thinking;” “Long views and distances” and “Why art practice?” address contemporary concerns like affectivity, aesthetics, economic imperatives, militarism, pedagogy, posthumanism, and the closure of what in Lyotards time was called "the West."
Four short pieces by Lyotard intervene in and buttress the discussion: “Apathy in Theory” and “Interview with Art Prsent,” here published in English for the first time, and “Affect-phrase” and “The Others Rights” republished here to highlight his prescient concern for that which cannot be articulated.
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Book Title: Lyotard and Critical Practice
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Lyotard and Critical Practice
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Aesthetics, Movements / Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2022
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Education
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Margret Grebowicz
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
