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Gender After Lyotard

Gender After Lyotard

Grebowicz, Margret

Paperback

Series: Suny Gender Theory

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0791469565
ISBN13: 9780791469569
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jan 4 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

Examines Lyotard's writings in light of contemporary feminist theory.

The revolutionary French thinker Jean-François Lyotard indicates in many of his writings that one of the most significant philosophical problems is the problem of gender. In spite of this, feminist thinkers in both the continental and Anglo-American traditions have largely ignored his work, perhaps because his approach to the question of gender is unsystematic, fluid, and difficult. This volume attempts to situate the central concerns of contemporary feminist theory-aesthetics, embodiment, performance, sexual difference, ethics, testimony-within Lyotard's writings, to show that these concerns have always been there. Contributors discuss film theory, body modification, feminist critiques of science, postholocaust art, the feminine sublime, and theater. As a whole, the book serves as a robust meditation on the nature of the political as understood by Lyotard, and demonstrates the many different ways in which feminist concerns are taken up in discussions regarding the nature of the political in contemporary continental thought. An afterword by James Williams-one of the world's leading Lyotard commentators-is included.

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