Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition

Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

von Ashley Woodward

224 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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'. Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses their relevance and impact in relation to a number of important contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Themen der Philosophie Philosophie Ästhetik
• ISBN: 9780748697243
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.03.2016
• Größe: 236 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press