The Lyotard Dictionary / / Stuart Sim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sim, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophical Dictionaries : PHDI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Entries A–Z --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748646005; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748646005
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stuart Sim.

The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-François LyotardDrawing on a multidisciplinary team of experts, the 168 entries in The Lyotard Dictionary explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating him to his contemporaries.118 entries cover all of Lyotard’s concepts and concerns, from ‘Addressee’ and ‘Aesthetics’, through ‘I don't know what’ and ‘Is it happening?’ to ‘Unpresentable’ and ‘Writing’A further 50 ‘linking’ entries contextualise Lyotard within the wider intellectual currents of his time, from concepts such as Nazism and Memory to thinkers from Aristotle to Jean BaudrillardJean-François Lyotard’s postmodern thought is massively influential across a host of academic disciplines, from philosophy and the social sciences through to literary, media, and cultural studies.