Discourse, Figure |
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| Author:
| Lyotard, Jean-François. |
| Translator:
| Hudek, Antony
Lydon, Mary |
| Series title: | Cultural Critique Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4566-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Now available in English, Discourse, Figure is Jean-François Lyotard's thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Discourse, Figure captures Lyotard's passionate engagement with topics beyond phenomenology and psychoanalysis to structuralism, semiotics, poetry, art, and the philosophy...
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Now available in English, Discourse, Figure is Jean-François Lyotard's thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Discourse, Figure captures Lyotard's passionate engagement with topics beyond phenomenology and psychoanalysis to structuralism, semiotics, poetry, art, and the philosophy of language.