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Author:   Dr Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781350357419

ISBN 10:   1350357413
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 6000 by Kiff Bamford 2.1984 Paris. ‘A propos du Différend’ . Round table with J.-Fr. Lyotard, introduction by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. 3.1985 London. Extracts from the ICA debate on the postmodern, ‘Defining the postmodern’ J-F Lyotard; ‘On the sublime’ Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; ‘A Response to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’ J-F Lyotard. 4.1987 Paris. ‘Witness to the Differend’ Debate with J.-Fr. Lyotard. 5.1987 Verona. ‘An Interview is also a language game’ with Alain Arias-Misson 6.1990 Aarhus. ‘Oral Exam’ Interview with Niels Brügger. 7.1992 Quebec. ‘That which resists, after all’ Interview with Gilbert Larochelle. 8.1994 Paris. ‘Resistances’ Interview with Sergio Benvenuto. 9.1994 Bogotá. ‘Crises’ Interview with Edgar Garavito. 10.1996 Atlanta. ‘Resisting a Discourse of Mastery’ interview with Gary A Olson. 11.1997 Caracas. ‘On the subject of interlocution’ Interview with María Elena Ramos. 12.1997 Paris. ‘Freud, Energy, Chance’ A conversation with Richard Beardsworth. 13. ‘Afterword’ by Dolorès Lyotard Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

Framed by the editor’s perceptive contextual introduction, this carefully curated collection of Lyotard’s later interviews and debates opens exciting avenues into the philosopher’s understanding of his approach to “the differend” and his commitment to mining the political engagement of textual and artistic form. Key is Lyotard’s acknowledgement in these hard-to-find documents of his unintended dialogue between the phrases of The Differend and the technologies of education in The Postmodern Condition that so deeply influenced his teaching, his pioneering Pompidou exhibition, Les Immatériaux and subsequent texts, and his extensive philosophical dialogues with international artists. Readers of this collection will come to embrace Lyotard’s passion for “debate” as the dialogical scene of artistic and political thought par excellence. * Timothy Murray, Cornell University *

Author Information

Kiff Bamford is Professor of Art and Philosophy at Leeds Beckett University. Publications include Lyotard and the ‘figural’ in Performance, Art and Writing (2012), Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Lives (2017), Jean-François Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates (ed. 2020), Lyotard and Critical Practice (ed. with Margret Grebowicz, 2023) and Lyotard’s Readings in Infancy (ed. with Robert Harvey, 2023).

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