TY - BOOK ID - 77887266 TI - Lyotard and the political PY - 2000 SN - 9786612777257 1282777254 113467127X 0203004906 9780203004906 9780415183482 0415183480 9780415183499 0415183499 9781134671274 0415183480 0415183499 9781134671229 9781134671267 1134671261 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - State, The. KW - Administration KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Sovereignty KW - Political science KW - Lyotard, Jean-François, KW - Contributions in political science. KW - Lyotard, Jean-Francois, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77887266 AB - Lyotard and the Political is the first book to consider the full range of the political thought of the French philosopher François Lyotard and its broader implications for an understanding of the political. James Williams clearly and carefully traces the development of Lyotard's thought from his early Marxist essays on the Algerian struggle for independence to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud. This is compared with Lyotard's later, highly influential writings on the politics of desire and his attempts to base a postmodern political discourse on the sublime. An indispens ER -