Discourse, Figure
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| Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
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| Original title | Discours, figure |
| Translator | Antony Hudek, Mary Lydon |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Structuralism |
| Published |
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| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 (University of Minnesota Press edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0816645657 |
Discourse, Figure (French: Discours, figure) is a 1971 book by Jean-François Lyotard, his first major work.[1]
Summary
Lyotard expresses dissatisfaction with structuralism and with theoretical approaches that seek to escape history through appeal to a timeless, universal structure of language divorced from experience.[1]
References
Footnotes
- 1 2 Schrift 1999. p. 523.
Bibliography
- Books
- Schrift, Alan D. (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.
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