Description
Book SynopsisThe author is one of Europe's foremost philosophers. His earlier work The Postmodern Condition is widely regarded as a modern classic. This book develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. The author is one of Europe's foremost philosophers.
Trade Review'Challenging and controversial,
The Inhuman will be among the more widely discussed books of the decade.'
Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine 'The Inhuman offers an interesting discussion of postmodernity, the concept which has made Lyotard's reputation in the English speaking world.' Sociology
Table of ContentsIntroduction: About the Human.
1. Can Thought go on without a Body?.
2. Rewriting Modernity.
3. Matter and Time.
4. Logos and Tekhne, or Telegraphy.
5. Time Today.
6. Newman: The Instant.
7. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.
8. Something like: 'Communication ... without Communication.'.
9. Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable.
10. Speech Snapshot.
11. After the Sublime, the State of Aesthetics.
12. Conservation and Colour.
13. God and the Puppet.
14. Obedience.
15. Scapeland.
16. Domus and the Megalopolis.
Index.
