Ashley Woodward

Gebundenes Buch

Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition

Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

Beschreibung

Ashley 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 .

Autor

Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (The Davies Group, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Other Becketts
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781474425803
• ISBN-10: 1474425801
• Artikelnr.: 47883009