Books about Jean-François Lyotard

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

• Aretoulakis, Emmanouil S. "The Unpresentable in Critical Thought: The Case of Lyotard and Lacan." M.A. Thesis, Illinois State University, 1996.

• Art and Philosophy: Baudrillard, Gadamer, Jameson, Kristeva, Lyotard, Marin, Perniola, Sloterdijk, Sollers, Virilio, West. New Critucism, 2. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1991.

• Bennington, Geoff. Lyotard: Writing the Event. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
  Reviews:
  

  • Cormack, Mike. Media, Culture & Society (October 1990), 12(4): 545+.
    

  • Gelley, Alexander. L'Esprit Créateur (Spring 1991), 31(1): 169-171.
    
  • Hobson, Marian. French Studies (October 1990), 44(4): 489-490.
    
  • Still, J. Paragraph (November 1989), 12(3): 238-248.
    
  • Whitehouse, Ian. Modern Language Review (October 1990), 85(4): 989-990.
    
    

• Benjamin, Andrew, ed Judging Lyotard. Warwick Studies in Philosophy & Literature Series. London & New York: Routledge, 1992.
  Contents:

  • Benjamin, Andrew. "Introduction," pp. ix-xii.
    
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. "Sensus Communis," pp. 1-25. (Marian Hobson and Geoff Bennington, trs.)
    
  • Barron, Anne. "Lyotard and the Problem of Justice," pp. 26-42.
    
  • Beardsworth, Richard, "On the Critical `Post': Lyotard's Agitated Judgement," pp. 43-80.
    
  • Keane, John. "The Modern Democratic Revolution: Reflections on Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition," pp. 81-98.
    
  • Steuerman, Emilia. "Habermas vs Lyotard: Modernity vs Postmodernity?" pp. 99-118.
    
  • Ingram, David. "The Postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and Lyotard," pp. 119-144.
    
  • Bennington, Geoffrey. "`Ces Petits Différends': Lyotard and Horace," pp. 145-167.
    
  • Readings, Bill. "Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital," pp. 168-191.
    
  • Crowther, Paul. Les Immatériaux and the Postmodern Sublime," pp. 192-205.
    
    

• Billouet, Pierre. Paganisme et postmodernité: J.-Fr. Lyotard. Polis. Paris: Ellipses, 1999.

• Browning, Gary K. Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives. Political Philosophy Now. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000.

• Brügger, Niels, Finn Frandsen and Dominique Pirotte, eds., Lyotard, les déplacements philosophiques. Le Point Philosophique. Bruxelles: De Boeck-Wesmael, 1993.

  Translation by Emile Danino of Filosofiske Forskydninger (1989).
  Contents:
  

  • Lyotard, Jean-François."Un avertissement," pp. 7-9.
  • Frandsen, Finn. "L'honneur de penser: Philosophie et déplacement chez Lyotard," pp. 13-31.
  • Brügger, Niels. "Où sont passés les jeux de langage?" pp. 33-53.
  • Sejten, Anne Elisabeth. "Politique négative," pp. 55-78.
  • Olsen, Kasper Nefer. "Anesthétique: Le sublume expliqué aux amants," pp. 79-97.
  • Stjernfelt, Frederik. "Parce que: L'éthique de Lyotard entre dissensus et impératif catégorique," pp. 99-118.
  • Schanz, Hans-Jorgen. "Un nomade aux sources philosophiques," PP. 119-124.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. "La mainmise," pp. 125-136.
  • Brugger, Niels. "Examen oral: Entretien avec Jean-Francois Lyotard," pp. 137-153.
  • Pirotte, Dominique. "Post-scriptum," pp. 157-157.

  Carroll, David. Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida. New York: Methuen, 1987.
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  • Davis, Robert Con. L'Esprit Créateur (Spring 1991), 31(1): 171-172.
    

  • Fisher, David H. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Summer 1990), 48(3): 256-258.
    
  • Stivale, Charles J. French Review (May 1988), 61(6): 946.

  Curtis, Neal. Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Aldershot, Hants & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

  Derrida, Jacques et al., La Faculte de juger. Collection "Critique." Paris: Minuit, 1985.
  Contents:

  • Derrida, Jacques. "Préjuges, Devant la loi," pp. 87-139.
    
  • Descombes, Vincent. "Considérations transcendentales," pp. 55-85.
    
  • Kortian, Garbis. "Le Droit de la philosophie dans la controverse politique," pp. 141-162.
    
  • Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. "Où en étions-nous?" pp. 165-193. Reprinted as "A Jean-François Lyotard__Où en etions-nous?" In his L'Imitation des modernes: Typographies 2, pp. 257-285. Paris: Galilée, 1986.
    
  • Nancy, Jean-Luc. Dies irae," pp. 9-54.
    
    

  Dekens, Olivier. Lyotard et la philosophie (du) politique. Collection Philosophie, épistémologie. Paris: Kime, 2000.

  Dhillon, Pradeep A. and Paul Standish, eds., Lyotard: Just Education. Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education, 9. London & New York: Routledge, 2000.

  Det Lokale og det universelle. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, 1986.
  Contents:

  • Finn Frandsen: "Om Jean-François Lyotard."
    
  • "Mangfoldighedernes refaerdighed og retfaerdighederes mangfoldighed: en samtale mellem J.-F. Lyotard og Jean-Loup Thebaud."
    
  • Jean-François Lyotard: "Det hemmeliges maleri i den postmoderne tidsalder, Baruchello."
    
  • Finn Frandsen: "Om Michel Serres."
    
  • Michel Serres: "Universet og stedet."
    
  • Michel Serres: "Rum og tider."
    
    

  Drot, Jean Marie. Il viaggio del dialogo = Le voyage du dialogue : Adami--Lyotard, Cremoni--Jouffroy, Maselli-Schefer, Peverelli--Glissant: Mostra Villa Medici. Prersentazione di Jean Marie Drot. Testi francesi sono stati tradotti da Romeo Lucchese. Rome: Carte Segrete, 1986.

  Ferraris, Maurizio. La svolta testuale: il decostruzionismo in Derrida, Lyotard, gli "Yale critics." 2d ed. Milan: Unicopli, 1986.

  Frank, Manfred. Die Grenzen der Verständigung: ein Geistergespräch zwischen Lyotard und Habermas. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1988.

  Harvey, Robert, ed., Afterwords: Essays in Memory of Jean-François Lyotard. Occasional papers of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY: Humanities Institute, 2000.

  Harvey, Robert and Lawrence R. Schehr, eds., Jean-François: Time and Judgment. Yale French Studies (2001), 99. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001.
  Contents:
  

  • Harvey, Robert and Lawrence R. Schehr. "Editors' Preface," pp. 1-5.
    
  • Butor, Michel. "Recollections on Jean-François. Lyotard," pp. 6-9. (Translated by Robert Harvey)
    
  • Lydon, Mary. "Veduta on Discours, figure," pp. 10-26.
    
  • Conley, Tom. "From Rebut to Rébus," pp. 27-43.
    
  • Fynsk, Christopher. "Jean-François's Infancy," pp. 44-61.
    
  • Schehr, Lawrence R. "Lyotard's Codpiece," pp. 62-76.
    
  • Brügger, Niels. "What about the Postmodern? The Concept of the Postmodern in the Work of Lyotard," pp. 77-92.
    
  • Deguy, Michel. "Dialogue and Différend," pp. 93-101.(Translated by Robert Harvey)
    
  • Harvey, Robert. "Telltale at the Passages," pp. 102-116.
    
  • Gasché, Rodolphe. "The Sublime, Ontologically Speaking," pp. 117-128.
    
  • Harris, Paul. "Thinking @ the Speed of Time: Globalization and its Dis-contents or, Can Lyotard's Thought Go on without a Body?"pp. 129-148.
    
  • Tomiche, Anne. "Lyotard and/on Literature," pp. 149-163.

  Gualandi, Alberto. Lyotard. Figures du savoir, 17. Paris: Belles lettres, 1999.

  Ivekovic, Rada. Le sexe de la philosophie: essai sur Jean-François Lyotard et le féminin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997.

  Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Imagining: From Husserl to Lyotard. Problems of Modern European Thought. London: HarperCollins Academic, 1991.

  Kilian, Monika. Modern and Postmodern Strategies: Gaming and the Question of Morality: Adorno, Rorty, Lyotard, and Enzensberger. Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, 11. New York: Lang, 1998.

  Lyotard, Dolores, Jean-Claude Milner, and Gerard Sfez, eds., Jean-François Lyotard: l'exercice du différend. Collection Librairie du College international de Philosophie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001.

  Nordquist, Joan. Jean-François Lyotard: A Bibliography. Social Theory, 21. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1991.

  Peters, Michael, ed. Education and the Postmodern Condition. Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series. Wesport, Connecticut & London: Bergin & Garvey, 1995.
  Contents:
  Lyotard, Jean-François. Foreword: "Spaceship," pp. xix-xx.
  Peters, Michael. Introduction: "Lyotard, Education, and the Postmodern Condition," pp. xxiii-xliii.
  

  1. Bain, William. "The Loss of Innocence: Lyotard, Foucault, and the Challenge of Postmodern Education," pp. 1-20.
     
  2. Peters, Michael. "Legitimation Problems: Knowledge and Education in the Postmodern Condition," pp. 21-39.
     
  3. Nuyen, A.T. "Lyotard and Rorty on the Role of the Professor," pp. 41-57.
     
  4. Fritzman, J.M. "From Pragmatism to the Differend," pp. 59-74.
     
  5. Nicholson, Carol. "Postmodern Feminism," pp. 75-85.
     
  6. McLaren, Peter. "Critical Pedagogy and the Pragmatics of Justice," pp. 87-120.
     
  7. Hinkson, John. "Lyotard, Postmodernity, and Education: A Critical Evaluation," pp. 121-146.
     
  8. Kanpol, Barry. "Is Education at the End of a Sovereign Story or at the Beginning of Another? Cultural-Political Possibilities and Lyotard," pp. 147-165.
     
  9. Marshall, James. "Pedagogy and Apedagogy: Lyotard and Foucault at Vincennes," pp. 167-192.
     
  10. Readings, Bill. "From Emancipation to Obligation: Sketch for a Heteronomous Politics of Education," pp. 193-207.
      
      

  Pefanis, Julian. Heterology and the Postmodern Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

  Raffel, Stanley. Habermas, Lyotard and the Concept of Justice. Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society. London: Macmillan Press, 1992.

  Readings, Bill. Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics [Here He Is]. Critics of the Twentieth Century. London & New York: Routledge, 1991.
  Reviews:

  • Harpham, Geoffrey Gault. TLS Times Literary Supplement] (June 28, 1991), 4604: 7.

  Reese-Schafer, Walter, ed. Jean-François Lyotard. Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts, 2. Cuxhaven: Junghans, 1989.
  Contents:

  • Wolfgang Welsch: "Vernunft im Ubergang."
    
  • Wolfgang Welsch: "Der Widerstreit, das Vernunft im Ubergang."
    
  • Christine Pries: "Der Widerstreit, das Erhabene, die Kritik."
    
  • Andreas Steffens: "Nach-Leben oder der Wunsch, ein Zuschauer zu sein."
    
  • Jacob Rogozinski: "Lyotard."
    
  • Michael Jager: "Das Problem der Namen by Lyotard."
    
  • Kathe Trettin: "Versuch, Lyotards Zeit-Problematisierung zu verstehen."
    
  • Hedwig Linden: "Grundannahmen bei Jean-François Lyotard und Hannah Arendt zum Totalitarismus als Metamorphosen einer Einheit von Denken und Sein."
    
  • Plinio W. Prado, Jr.: "Die Notwendigkeit der Zufalligkeit uber Lyotards `Nach' Wittgenstein."
    
  • Enrico Castelli Gattinara: "Die Offenheit des Erhabenen in Kunst, Philosophie und Wissenschaft."
    
  • Josef Perger: "Lyotard, eine Position mit oder ohne Zukunft?"
    
  • Walter Reese-Schafer: "Vom Erhabenen zum Sublimen ist es nur ein Schritt."
    
  • Bernhard H.F. Taureck: "Wo steht Lyotard?"
    
    

  Lyotard zur Einfuhrung. Und Gesprach mit Jean-François Lyotard. Hamburg: Edition SOAK im Junius Verlag, 1988.

  Rojek, Chris and Bryan S. Turner, eds., The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.
  Contents:
  Introduction: Judging Lyotard / Chris Rojek and Bryan S. Turner
  1. Lyotard and the Decline of 'Society' / Chris Rojek
  2. Forgetfulness and Frailty: Otherness and Rights in Contemporary Social Theory / Bryan S. Turner
  3. The Politics of Difference and the Problem of Justice / Barry Smart
  4. Saying Goodbye to Emancipation? Where Lyotard Leaves Feminism, and where Feminists Leave Lyotard / Caroline Ramazanoglu
  5. Narrative, Knowledge and Art: On Lyotard's Jewishness / Ioan Davies
  6. Identity, Memory and Difference: Lyotard and 'The Jews' / Victor J. Seidler
  7. Lost in the Post: (Post)modernity Explained to Youth / John O'Neill
  8. Lyotard's Early Writings: 1954-1963 / Mike Gane.

  Ruby, Christian. Les Archipels de la différence: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard. Philosophie. Paris: Editions du Félin, 1989.

  Sfez, Gérald. Jean- François Lyotard, la faculté d'une phrase. Collection "Débats". Paris: Galilée, 2000.

  Sim, Stuart. Lyotard and the Inhuman. Postmodern Encounters. Cambridge: Icon/Totem, 2000.

  Steuerman, Emilia. The Bounds of Reason: Habermas, Lyotard, and Melanie Klein on Rationality. Problems of Modern European Thought. London & New York: Routledge, 2000.

  Témoigner du différend, quand phraser ne se peut: autour de Jean- François Lyotard. Avec des exposés de Francis Guibal et Jacob Rogozinski. Paris: Osiris, 1989.
  Contents:

  • Francis Guibal: "Penser (avec Jean-François Lyotard), le temps du risque"
    
  • Jacob Rogozinski: "Lyotard, le différend, la présence."
    
  • Débat général.
    
    

  Van Peperstraten, Frans. Jean-François Lyotard: gebeurtnis en rechtvaardigheid. Kampen: Kok Agora; Kapellen: Pelckmans, 1995.

  Welsch, Wolfgang. "Sprache-Widerstreit-vernunft. Darstellung und Kritik von Lyotards Konzept der Postmoderne." In Thomas Seebohm, et al. Logik, Anschaulichkeit und Transparenz: Studien zu Husserl, Heidegger und der franzoischen Phanomenologiekritik, pp. Phanomenologische Forschungen, 23. Freiberg: Alber, 1990.

  Welsch, Wolfgang and Christine Pries, eds. Asthetik im Widerstreit: Interventionen zum Werk von JeanFrançois Lyotard. Weinheim: VCH Acta Humaniora, 1991.

  Williams, James. Lyotard and the Political. Thinking the Political. London & New York: Routledge, 2000.

  Williams, James. Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy. Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1998.