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The Inhuman
Reflections on Time
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by Jean-Francois Lyotard,
Translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby
Stanford University Press
Due/Published
February 1992, 216 pages,
paper
ISBN
0804720088
In a wide-ranging discussion the author examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida and looks at the works of modernist and postmodernist artists such as Cezanne, Debussy and Boulez. Lyotard addresses issues such as time and memory, the sublime and the avant-garde, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Throughout his discussion he considers the close but problematic links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the transition to postmodernity. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain this difficult transition. This important contribution to aesthetic and philosophical debates will be of great interest to students in philosophy, literary and cultural theory and politics. |
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