Discourse, Figure

Name: Discourse, Figure
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ISBN: 9780816645657

ISBN-10: 0816645655

ISBN-13: 9780816645657

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jean-Francois Lyotard, John Mowitt, Antony Hudek, Mary Lydon

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Jean-Francois Lyotard is recognized as one of the most significant French philosophers of the twentieth century. Although nearly all of his major writing has been translated into English, one important work has until now been unavailable.Discourse, Figureis Lyotard's thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris,Discourse, Figuredistinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/11/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: The Gold-Bug



Discourse, Figure


The Bias of the Figural


Signification and Designation


Dialectics, Index, Form


Recessus and Hyper-Reflection


Linguistic Sign?


Effect of Thickness in the System


Thickness on the Margins of Discourse


The No and the Position of the Object


Opposition and Difference


Veduta on a Fragment of the "History" of Desire


The other space


The Line and the Letter


"The Dream-Work Does Not Think"


Desire's Complicity with the Figural


Desire in Discourse


Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy


Return, Auto-Illustration, Double Reversal


Appendix: Jean-Francois Lyotards French Translation of "Die Verneinung" by Sigmund Freud


Notes to Chapters


Notes on Figures And Plates


Bibliography


Index of Names


Index of Concepts and German Expressions