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'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological.
Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume - with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford - contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.
Contents
Foreword, Robert Harvey (Stony Brook University, USA)
Infans, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Mary Lydon
Return: Joyce, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts.
Prescription: Kafka, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans Christopher Fynsk
Survivor: Arendt, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey & Mark S. Roberts
Words: Sartre, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman
Disorder: Valéry, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Robert Harvey
Voices: Freud, J-Fr. Lyotard, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele
Afterword, Kiff Bamford (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Notes
Bibliography of Works by J-Fr. Lyotard in English Translation
Index