currently Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of California at Irvine. Several of his books haveappeared in English, notable The Postmodern Condition, Just Gamingand The Dirrerend.The Lyotard Reader is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's mostimportant and significant papers to date. While they are allwritten from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects aswide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman),psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard'swork means that it can not be readily situated within any onephilosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself todebates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines thephilosophical enterprise.A number of chapters in The Lyotard Reader appear for the firsttime in English. This is the most comprehensive collectionavailable of Lyotard's work, work has profoundly influenced debateson the Enlightenment, on modernity, on postmodernity, on thetransmission f information, on literary theory and on philosophy.

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