Minima Memoria: In the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard

Published by Stanford University Press 2007

Minima Memoria

In the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard

Edited by: Claire Nouvet , Zrinka Stahuljak and Kent Still

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503625099

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Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-François Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory, gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention is paid to Lyotard's repeated warnings regarding the way in which the complexity of events can be occluded in the very attempt to represent them. Indeed, through the contributors' careful and critical analysis, Lyotard's complex intellectual trajectory—all the way up to the posthumously published works The Confession of Augustine and The Misery of Philosophy—is traced in different and often conflicting manners, which bring out the different currents that traverse his writings and the sites of tension that such terms as "different," "affect," and "infancy" mark. What emerges is not a grand narrative that would organize Lyotard's life and work around one unifying idea, but multifaceted approaches that extend in new and unforeseen directions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Minima Memoria Kent Still Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Lyotard and Us Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Saving the Honor of Thinking: On Jean-François Lyotard Rodolphe Gasché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Lyotard's Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory Dorota Glowacka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Dissensus: Polemos, Embodiment, Obligation Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Writings of the Differend Gérald Sfez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony Claire Nouvet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Jean-François's Infancy Christopher Fynsk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested Avital Ronell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Passages of the Maya Philippe Bonnefis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Lyotard Archipelago Michael Naas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Childish Things Geoffrey Bennington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 280

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Published: January 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781503625099