Postmodern Fables

Postmodern Fables
ISBN-10
0816625549
ISBN-13
9780816625543
Category
Philosophy
Pages
259
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Author
Jean-François Lyotard

Description

A collection of 15 fables from a founding figure of postmodernism that ask in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live and why?" It provides attention to issues of justice and ethics, and aesthetics and judgement - unravelling and reconfiguring idealistic notions of subjects.

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