- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (1 Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253336147
- ISBN-13: 978-0253336149
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,423,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a philosophical development of the Freudian concept of "libidinal economy" and one of Lyotard's most important works. In part a response to Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (English translation Athlone, 1984), it can also be seen as culminating a line of modern thought ranging from de Sade, Nietzsche and Bataille, to Deleuze, Klossowski, Irigaray and Cixous. It is thus important in the context of modern French philosophy, and also in its relevance to contemporary thinking on a broad range of questions, including sexual politics, semiotics and literary studies. Jean-Francois Lyotard's other translated works include "The Postmodern Condition", "Just Gaming" and "The Differend".
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Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was Professor of Philosophy at several universities in Paris and at the University of California at Irvine. A member of the Marxist group, Socialisme ou barbarie, until his disaffection in the early 1970s, he later went on to be one of the founding figures of postmodernism with his work The Postmodern Condition.
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An important work by the late, missed and brilliant Francois Lyotard. An effective response to Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus", Lyotard almost succeeds in showing the libidinal drives underlying not only the economy but a critique of Marxism too. Here while seemingly accepting Freud's idea of the libido, Lyotard shows how much more complex and satisfying his take of society is compared to the cumbersome and unsuccessful try by Deleuze and Guattari to combine Marx and Freud. Lyotard uses ideas from Bataille to stress the organic development of man and society in contrast to the mechanistic structures of "Anti-Oedipus" which is reminiscent of most of the French rationalist school who want to reduce everything to equations of either bodies without organs, or a formula by Descartes.
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