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The Inhuman
Reflections on Time

Jean-Francois Lyotard (Author)

9780745612386, Polity Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 July 1993

224 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.312 kg

'Challenging and controversial, The Inhuman will be among the more widely discussed books of the decade.' Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

'The Inhuman offers an interesting discussion of postmodernity, the concept which has made Lyotard's reputation in the English speaking world.' Sociology

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmodernity.

Introduction: About the Human.

1. Can Thought go on without a Body?.

2. Rewriting Modernity.

3. Matter and Time.

4. Logos and Tekhne, or Telegraphy.

5. Time Today.

6. Newman: The Instant.

7. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.

8. Something like: 'Communication ... without Communication.'.

9. Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable.

10. Speech Snapshot.

11. After the Sublime, the State of Aesthetics.

12. Conservation and Colour.

13. God and the Puppet.

14. Obedience.

15. Scapeland.

16. Domus and the Megalopolis.

Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
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