Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Other Becketts)
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Ashley Woodward (Author)
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Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanism Ashley Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.
Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide-ranging and highly original contributions to thought were overshadowed by his brief, unfortunate association with 'postmodernism.' Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are today known as 'posthumanism'.
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Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.
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- Contributor: Ashley Woodward
- Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN13: 9781474425803
- Number of Pages: 224
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Release Date: 2017-08-31
- Series: Other Becketts
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.
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