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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard is one of the key intellectual figures of our time. He achieved wide renown in the early 1980s as the author of The Postmodern Condition (La Condition Postmoderne) which quickly became a central text in postmodern theory. Yet notwithstanding the importance of the analyses it offered of contemporary society and science The Postmodern Condition was a short occasional piece commissioned by the Conseil de Universit?s of the gov- ernment of Quebec and Lyotard was doubtless somewhat embarrassed by its success. Informing the text but largely eclipsed by it at least outside of Lyotard’s native France – there lay thirty years of profound engagement with the central philosophical and political problems of the latter part of the twentieth century. Thus whilst the popularity of The Postmodern Condition cast a shadow over Lyotard’s other work through it that work fundamentally influenced and continues to influence thinking in the humanities arts and sciences often in subtle and unacknowledged ways. For this reason alone an understanding of the full range of Lyotard’s work is indispensable to anyone seeking to appreciate current thinking and practice in these three central areas of human life. (LL)