Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition

Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Ashley Woodward, University of Dundee) Woodward, Ashley (Lecturer in Philosophy

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Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard’s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard’s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as ‘posthumanism’. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard’s specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-01
Mått155 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTechnicities
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474425803

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Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (The Davies Group, 2009).

Series Editors’ Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Beyond the postmodern?: The inhuman condition; 1. The End of Time: Evolution, extinction, and the fate of meaning; 2. Information and Event: Lyotard’s philosophy of information; 3. Economy, Ecology, Organology: On technics and desire; 4. Nihilism and the Sublime: The crisis of perception; 5. Aesthesis and Techne; New technologies and Lyotard’s aesthetics; 6. Immaterial Matter: Yves Klein and the aesthetics of the sensible; 7. Inhuman Arts: From cubism to new media; Conclusion: The Judgement of the Inhuman; Bibliography; Index.

Ashley Woodward’s bright analysis rests upon a deep understanding of the whole corpus of Lyotard’s writings, from the earliest to the posthumous, and is contextualized by a confrontation with the philosophies of Bergson, Deleuze, Stiegler, Virilio, Habermas, Heidegger, Luhmann, Merleau-Ponty and others. His book outlines with great clarity the complexity of Lyotard’s view of the ‘inhuman condition’, and particularly his fascination of the ‘artistic event’.