Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words (1989) and, with C. Norris, What is Deconstruction? (1989). He is the editor of several books, including Poststructuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1988).

• Foreword by Jean-Francois Lyotard. Und So Weiter: In Lieu of an Introduction.Acknowledgements.1. The Tensor.2. The Dream-Work Does Not Think.3. Passages from Le Mur du Pacigique.4. Figure Foreclosed.5. One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles.6. Lessons in Paganism.7. Beyond Representation.8. Acinema.9. Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity.10. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.11. Scapeland.12. Anamnesis of the Visible, or Candour.13. Newman: The Instant.14. The Story of Ruth.15. Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game.16. Levinas' Logic.17. Universal history and Cultural Differences.18. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx.19. Discussions, or Phrasing ‘after Auschwitz'.20. The Sign of History.Select bibliography of English Translations of Lyotard's Writings.Index.

‘Andrew Benjamin asks me for a short – very short – foreword for this Lyotard Reader, nothing much, only four or five pages. Just like that , quite casually. As though it was the most natural thing in the world. But there's nothing natural at all about this Lyotard Reader, or about the idea that Lyotard himself should write a foreword for the Reader. You say foreword. Let him say a word before you read his words. A key word that gives the Reader, a key to the words in the Reader ...' Jean- Reader Francois Lyotard from the foreword