ABSTRACT

Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference, feminism, youth and Judaism.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Judging Lyotard

chapter |18 pages

Forgetfulness and Frailty

Otherness and Rights in Contemporary Social Theory

chapter |21 pages

Saying Goodbye to Emancipation?

Where Lyotard Leaves Feminism, and where Feminists Leave Lyotard

chapter |18 pages

Narrative, Knowledge and Art

On Lyotard's Jewishness

chapter |26 pages

Identity, Memory and Difference

Lyotard and ‘the Jews'

chapter |11 pages

Lost in the Post

(Post)Modernity Explained to Youth

chapter |19 pages

Lyotard's Early Writings 1954–1963

Lyotard and ‘The Jews'